On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 03:57:07PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: > On Tue 20-04-21 14:24:30, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 03:13:54PM +0300, Mike Rapoport wrote: > > > Add a paragraph that explains that it may happen that the counters in > > > /proc/meminfo do not add up to the overall memory usage. > > > > ... that is, the sum may be lower because memory is allocated for other > > purposes that is not reported here, right? > > yes. Many direct page allocator users are not accounted in any of the > existing counters. Does virtio_balloon dereserve special mention? >From inside VM memory borrowing looks like one giant memory leak resulting in support tickets (not that people who file them read internal kernel documentation...)
