linux-kernel - Re: quicklists confuse meminfo

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Date:	Wed, 26 Mar 2008 11:37:10 +0100
From:	"Bart Van Assche" <bart.vanassche@...il.com>
To:	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	"Nick Piggin" <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>,
	"Christoph Lameter" <clameter@....com>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"KOSAKI Motohiro" <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: quicklists confuse meminfo

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 9:13 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> wrote:
>
>  * Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@...il.com> wrote:
>
>  > This issue is indeed fixed now, thanks (retested with kernel version
>  > 2.6.25-rc6-00333-ga4083c9-dirty). Where can I find the patch that
>  > fixed this issue ? A Google query for the commit ID returned only one
>  > result, and that was an URL that pointed to your e-mail.
>
>  thanks a lot Bart for the persistent testing - this was a nasty one to
>  track down. Find the standalone fix below.

Thanks to everyone who worked on this. By the way, I have asked Albert
Calahan, the procps maintainer, to fix the free/top/vmstat tools such
that these take recently added /proc/meminfo fields into account and
display correct values on recent 2.6 kernels. See also
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9991 and
http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=120496901605830&w=2.

Bart.
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