Re: [PATCH v2 00/12] Convert all vmstat counters to pages or bytes

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I am very sorry that I have hit 'git send-email *' in a directory
containing both v1 and v2 patchs. Please ignore this. I will
resend this version. Very sorry for the noise. Thanks.

On Sun, Dec 6, 2020 at 4:25 PM Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> This patch series is aimed to convert all THP vmstat counters to pages
> and some KiB vmstat counters to bytes.
>
> The unit of some vmstat counters are pages, some are bytes, some are
> HPAGE_PMD_NR, and some are KiB. When we want to expose these vmstat
> counters to the userspace, we have to know the unit of the vmstat counters
> is which one. It makes the code complex. Because there are too many choices,
> the probability of making a mistake will be greater.
>
> For example, the below is some bug fix:
>   - 7de2e9f195b9 ("mm: memcontrol: correct the NR_ANON_THPS counter of hierarchical memcg")
>   - not committed(it is the first commit in this series) ("mm: memcontrol: fix NR_ANON_THPS account")
>
> This patch series can make the code simple (161 insertions(+), 187 deletions(-)).
> And make the unit of the vmstat counters are either pages or bytes. Fewer choices
> means lower probability of making mistakes :).
>
> This was inspired by Johannes and Roman. Thanks to them.
>
> Changes in v1 -> v2:
>   - Change the series subject from "Convert all THP vmstat counters to pages"
>     to "Convert all vmstat counters to pages or bytes".
>   - Convert NR_KERNEL_SCS_KB account to bytes.
>   - Convert vmstat slab counters to bytes.
>   - Remove {global_}node_page_state_pages.
>
> Muchun Song (12):
>   mm: memcontrol: fix NR_ANON_THPS account
>   mm: memcontrol: convert NR_ANON_THPS account to pages
>   mm: memcontrol: convert NR_FILE_THPS account to pages
>   mm: memcontrol: convert NR_SHMEM_THPS account to pages
>   mm: memcontrol: convert NR_SHMEM_PMDMAPPED account to pages
>   mm: memcontrol: convert NR_FILE_PMDMAPPED account to pages
>   mm: memcontrol: convert kernel stack account to bytes
>   mm: memcontrol: convert NR_KERNEL_SCS_KB account to bytes
>   mm: memcontrol: convert vmstat slab counters to bytes
>   mm: memcontrol: scale stat_threshold for byted-sized vmstat
>   mm: memcontrol: make the slab calculation consistent
>   mm: memcontrol: remove {global_}node_page_state_pages
>
>  drivers/base/node.c     |  25 ++++-----
>  fs/proc/meminfo.c       |  22 ++++----
>  include/linux/mmzone.h  |  21 +++-----
>  include/linux/vmstat.h  |  21 ++------
>  kernel/fork.c           |   8 +--
>  kernel/power/snapshot.c |   2 +-
>  kernel/scs.c            |   4 +-
>  mm/filemap.c            |   4 +-
>  mm/huge_memory.c        |   9 ++--
>  mm/khugepaged.c         |   4 +-
>  mm/memcontrol.c         | 131 ++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------
>  mm/oom_kill.c           |   2 +-
>  mm/page_alloc.c         |  17 +++----
>  mm/rmap.c               |  19 ++++---
>  mm/shmem.c              |   3 +-
>  mm/vmscan.c             |   2 +-
>  mm/vmstat.c             |  54 ++++++++------------
>  17 files changed, 161 insertions(+), 187 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.11.0
>


-- 
Yours,
Muchun



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