linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Display 0 in meminfo for Committed

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0904271214580.31916@qirst.com>
Date:	Mon, 27 Apr 2009 12:15:37 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
To:	Dave Hansen <dave@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
cc:	Eric B Munson <ebmunson@...ibm.com>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mel@....ul.ie
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Display 0 in meminfo for Committed_AS when value
 underflows

On Mon, 27 Apr 2009, Dave Hansen wrote:

> Yeah, this is the right fix for now until we can iron out the base
> issues.  Eric, I think this may also be a candidate for -stable.

Is there any way you could use a ZVC there? Those already have the
underflow prevention logic. See include/linux/vmstat.h and mm/vmstat.c
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