linux-kernel - [PATCH] proc, meminfo: Use correct helpers for calculating LRU sizes in meminfo

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Date:	Fri, 5 Aug 2016 11:58:05 +0100
From:	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] proc, meminfo: Use correct helpers for calculating LRU sizes
 in meminfo

meminfo_proc_show and si_mem_available are using the wrong helpers for
calculating the size of the LRUs. The user-visible impact is that there
appears to be an abnormally high number of unevictable pages.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>
---
 fs/proc/meminfo.c | 2 +-
 mm/page_alloc.c   | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/proc/meminfo.c b/fs/proc/meminfo.c
index 09e18fdf61e5..b9a8c813e5e6 100644
--- a/fs/proc/meminfo.c
+++ b/fs/proc/meminfo.c
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ static int meminfo_proc_show(struct seq_file *m, void *v)
 		cached = 0;
 
 	for (lru = LRU_BASE; lru < NR_LRU_LISTS; lru++)
-		pages[lru] = global_page_state(NR_LRU_BASE + lru);
+		pages[lru] = global_node_page_state(NR_LRU_BASE + lru);
 
 	available = si_mem_available();
 
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index fb975cec3518..baa97da3687d 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -4064,7 +4064,7 @@ long si_mem_available(void)
 	int lru;
 
 	for (lru = LRU_BASE; lru < NR_LRU_LISTS; lru++)
-		pages[lru] = global_page_state(NR_LRU_BASE + lru);
+		pages[lru] = global_node_page_state(NR_LRU_BASE + lru);
 
 	for_each_zone(zone)
 		wmark_low += zone->watermark[WMARK_LOW];