On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 05:48:25PM +0000, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> Yongqin reported that /proc/zoneinfo format is broken in 4.14
> due to commit 7aaf77272358 ("mm: don't show nr_indirectly_reclaimable
> in /proc/vmstat")
>
> Node 0, zone DMA
> per-node stats
> nr_inactive_anon 403
> nr_active_anon 89123
> nr_inactive_file 128887
> nr_active_file 47377
> nr_unevictable 2053
> nr_slab_reclaimable 7510
> nr_slab_unreclaimable 10775
> nr_isolated_anon 0
> nr_isolated_file 0
> <...>
> nr_vmscan_write 0
> nr_vmscan_immediate_reclaim 0
> nr_dirtied 6022
> nr_written 5985
> 74240
> ^^^^^^^^^^
> pages free 131656
>
> The problem is caused by the nr_indirectly_reclaimable counter,
> which is hidden from the /proc/vmstat, but not from the
> /proc/zoneinfo. Let's fix this inconsistency and hide the
> counter from /proc/zoneinfo exactly as from /proc/vmstat.
>
> BTW, in 4.19+ the counter has been renamed and exported by
> the commit b29940c1abd7 ("mm: rename and change semantics of
> nr_indirectly_reclaimable_bytes"), so there is no such a problem
> anymore.
>
> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 4.14.x-4.18.x
> Fixes: 7aaf77272358 ("mm: don't show nr_indirectly_reclaimable in /proc/vmstat")
> Reported-by: Yongqin Liu <yongqin.liu@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@xxxxxx>
> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> mm/vmstat.c | 4 ++++
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/mm/vmstat.c b/mm/vmstat.c
> index 527ae727d547..6389e876c7a7 100644
> --- a/mm/vmstat.c
> +++ b/mm/vmstat.c
> @@ -1500,6 +1500,10 @@ static void zoneinfo_show_print(struct seq_file *m, pg_data_t *pgdat,
> if (is_zone_first_populated(pgdat, zone)) {
> seq_printf(m, "\n per-node stats");
> for (i = 0; i < NR_VM_NODE_STAT_ITEMS; i++) {
> + /* Skip hidden vmstat items. */
> + if (*vmstat_text[i + NR_VM_ZONE_STAT_ITEMS +
> + NR_VM_NUMA_STAT_ITEMS] == '\0')
> + continue;
> seq_printf(m, "\n %-12s %lu",
> vmstat_text[i + NR_VM_ZONE_STAT_ITEMS +
> NR_VM_NUMA_STAT_ITEMS],
> --
> 2.17.2
>
I do not see this patch in Linus's tree, do you?
If not, what am I supposed to do with this?
confused,
greg k-h
