linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: memcontrol: provide shmem statistics

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Date:   Wed, 22 Feb 2017 15:12:50 +1100
From:   Balbir Singh <bsingharora@...il.com>
To:     Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>,
        Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@...il.com>,
        Chris Down <cdown@...com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        cgroups@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-team@...com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: memcontrol: provide shmem statistics

On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 11:43:43AM -0500, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> Cgroups currently don't report how much shmem they use, which can be
> useful data to have, in particular since shmem is included in the
> cache/file item while being reclaimed like anonymous memory.
> 
> Add a counter to track shmem pages during charging and uncharging.
> 
> Reported-by: Chris Down <cdown@...com>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
> ---

Makes sense

Acked-by: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@...il.com>