Re: [PATCH v9 2/5] ksm: count all zero pages placed by KSM

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>> +extern unsigned long ksm_zero_pages;
>> +
>> +static inline void ksm_notify_unmap_zero_page(pte_t pte)
>> +{
>> +	if (is_ksm_zero_pte(pte))
>> +		ksm_zero_pages--;
>> +}
>> +
>>   static inline int ksm_fork(struct mm_struct *mm, struct mm_struct *oldmm)
>>   {
>>   	int ret;
>> @@ -103,6 +111,10 @@ static inline void ksm_exit(struct mm_struct *mm)
>>   
>>   #define is_ksm_zero_pte(pte)	0
>>   
>> +static inline void ksm_notify_unmap_zero_page(pte_t pte)
>> +{
>> +}
>> +
>
>Having proposed that name ... I realize that we call this function 
>whenever there might be a zeropage mapped (when we have !page after 
>vm_normal_page()) -- but it could also not be the zeropage.
>
>Not really able to come up with a better name :)
>
>ksm_notify_maybe_unmap_zero_page ?
>
>ksm_maybe_unmap_zero_page ?
>

Analogous to the existing name of ksm_might_need_to_copy, so maybe we can use
'ksm_might_unmap_zero_page', 

>
>Maybe someone else reading along has a better idea. In any case, the 
>logic itself LGTM





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