Which kernel functions are called upon page cache accesses?

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I have an application and I'd like to measure its page cache hit/miss numbers. I found this tool called cachestat by Brendan Gregg, which uses the ftrace tool to count the number of 4 specific functions (mark_page_accessed(), mark_buffer_dirty(), add_to_page_cache_lru(), and account_page_dirtied()) to find out the total number of page cache accesses and page cache misses. Detailed information can be found here, but basically, total number of page cache accesses and page cache misses can be calculated as below:

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