On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 01:34:00PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote: > On Mon 29-01-18 16:43:55, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > - for function pagevec_lookup_entries(), change the function parameter > > name from nr_pages to nr_entries since that is more descriptive of > > what the parameter actually is and then it matches the kernel-doc > > comments also > > I know what is nr_pages because I do expect pages to be returned. What > are entries? Can it be something different from pages?
entries are any page cache entries -- pages or exceptional entries. calling this parameter nr_pages tricks you into thinking that you'll only get pages back.