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Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2015 16:43:40 -0800 From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> To: "Wang, Yalin" <Yalin.Wang@...ymobile.com> Cc: "'minchan@...nel.org'" <minchan@...nel.org>, "'Konstantin Khlebnikov'" <koct9i@...il.com>, "'Kirill A. Shutemov'" <kirill@...temov.name>, "'linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org'" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, "'linux-mm@...ck.org'" <linux-mm@...ck.org>, "'linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org'" <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>, "'n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com'" <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>, "'pintu.k@...sung.com'" <pintu.k@...sung.com>, Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org Subject: Re: [RFC] mm:change meminfo cached calculation On Fri, 26 Dec 2014 19:56:49 +0800 "Wang, Yalin" <Yalin.Wang@...ymobile.com> wrote: > This patch subtract sharedram from cached, > sharedram can only be swap into swap partitions, > they should be treated as swap pages, not as cached pages. > > ... > > --- a/fs/proc/meminfo.c > +++ b/fs/proc/meminfo.c > @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ static int meminfo_proc_show(struct seq_file *m, void *v) > committed = percpu_counter_read_positive(&vm_committed_as); > > cached = global_page_state(NR_FILE_PAGES) - > - total_swapcache_pages() - i.bufferram; > + total_swapcache_pages() - i.bufferram - i.sharedram; > if (cached < 0) > cached = 0; Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt says : Cached: in-memory cache for files read from the disk (the : pagecache). Doesn't include SwapCached So yes, I guess it should not include shmem. And why not do this as well? --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt~mm-change-meminfo-cached-calculation-fix +++ a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -811,7 +811,7 @@ MemAvailable: An estimate of how much me Buffers: Relatively temporary storage for raw disk blocks shouldn't get tremendously large (20MB or so) Cached: in-memory cache for files read from the disk (the - pagecache). Doesn't include SwapCached + pagecache). Doesn't include SwapCached or Shmem. SwapCached: Memory that once was swapped out, is swapped back in but still also is in the swapfile (if memory is needed it doesn't need to be swapped out AGAIN because it is already _ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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