linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: fixup /proc/vmstat output

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Date:	Fri, 6 Jul 2007 21:18:37 +0400
From:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Fengguang Wu <wfg@...l.ustc.edu.cn>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>, riel <riel@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: fixup /proc/vmstat output

On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 01:35:34PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Line up the vmstat_text with zone_stat_item
> 
> enum zone_stat_item {
> 	/* First 128 byte cacheline (assuming 64 bit words) */
> 	NR_FREE_PAGES,
> 	NR_INACTIVE,
> 	NR_ACTIVE,
> 
> We current have nr_active and nr_inactive reversed.

OK with patch, though using initializers canbe handy to prevent such
things in future:

	static const char * const vmstat_text[] = {
		[NR_FREE_PAGES] = "nr_free_pages",
		...

> --- linux-2.6.orig/mm/vmstat.c
> +++ linux-2.6/mm/vmstat.c
> @@ -700,8 +700,8 @@ const struct seq_operations pagetypeinfo
>  static const char * const vmstat_text[] = {
>  	/* Zoned VM counters */
>  	"nr_free_pages",
> -	"nr_active",
>  	"nr_inactive",
> +	"nr_active",
>  	"nr_anon_pages",
>  	"nr_mapped",
>  	"nr_file_pages",

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