Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 09:05:41 +0200
From: Andrea Righi <andrea@betterlinux.com>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
        Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] mm: introduce __invalidate_mapping_pages()
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On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 06:46:46PM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On 06/24/2011 09:49 AM, Andrea Righi wrote:
> 
> >diff --git a/mm/truncate.c b/mm/truncate.c
> >index 3a29a61..90f3a97 100644
> >--- a/mm/truncate.c
> >+++ b/mm/truncate.c
> >@@ -312,20 +312,27 @@ void truncate_inode_pages(struct address_space *mapping, loff_t lstart)
> >  EXPORT_SYMBOL(truncate_inode_pages);
> >
> >  /**
> >- * invalidate_mapping_pages - Invalidate all the unlocked pages of one inode
> >+ * __invalidate_mapping_pages - Invalidate all the unlocked pages of one inode
> >   * @mapping: the address_space which holds the pages to invalidate
> >   * @start: the offset 'from' which to invalidate
> >   * @end: the offset 'to' which to invalidate (inclusive)
> >+ * @force: always drop pages when true (otherwise, reduce cache eligibility)
> 
> I don't like the parameter name "force".

Agreed.

> 
> The parameter determines whether or not pages actually get
> invalidated, so I'm guessing the parameter name should
> reflect the function...
> 
> Maybe something like "invalidate"?

Sounds better.

-Andrea
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