linux-kernel - Re: [patch 2/2] m68k: Discontinuous memory support

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Date:	Tue, 29 May 2007 17:44:35 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-m68k@...r.kernel.org,
	Roman Zippel <zippel@...ux-m68k.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 2/2] m68k: Discontinuous memory support

On Mon, 28 May 2007 21:16:32 +0200
Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org> wrote:

> +	for_each_online_pgdat(pgdat) {
> +		for (i = 0; i < pgdat->node_spanned_pages; i++) {
> +			struct page *page = pgdat->node_mem_map + i;
> +			total++;
> +			if (PageReserved(page))
> +				reserved++;
> +			else if (PageSwapCache(page))
> +				cached++;
> +			else if (!page_count(page))
> +				free++;

This isn't really true.  Callers of the page allocator don't _have_ to use
page_count(): they can internally perform their own refcounting.  One such
caller is slab, so this "free" count can end up being grossly wrong.

> +			else
> +				shared += page_count(page) - 1;
> +		}


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