These flushes deal with sequence number overflows, such as for long lived threads. These are rare, but interesting from a debugging PoV. As such, display the number of flushes when vmacache debugging is enabled. Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@xxxxxxx> --- include/linux/vm_event_item.h | 1 + mm/vmacache.c | 2 ++ mm/vmstat.c | 1 + 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/include/linux/vm_event_item.h b/include/linux/vm_event_item.h index 730334c..9246d32 100644 --- a/include/linux/vm_event_item.h +++ b/include/linux/vm_event_item.h @@ -90,6 +90,7 @@ enum vm_event_item { PGPGIN, PGPGOUT, PSWPIN, PSWPOUT, #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_VM_VMACACHE VMACACHE_FIND_CALLS, VMACACHE_FIND_HITS, + VMACACHE_FULL_FLUSHES, #endif NR_VM_EVENT_ITEMS }; diff --git a/mm/vmacache.c b/mm/vmacache.c index 9f25af8..b6e3662 100644 --- a/mm/vmacache.c +++ b/mm/vmacache.c @@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ void vmacache_flush_all(struct mm_struct *mm) { struct task_struct *g, *p; + count_vm_vmacache_event(VMACACHE_FULL_FLUSHES); + /* * Single threaded tasks need not iterate the entire * list of process. We can avoid the flushing as well diff --git a/mm/vmstat.c b/mm/vmstat.c index 1b12d39..10d7403 100644 --- a/mm/vmstat.c +++ b/mm/vmstat.c @@ -898,6 +898,7 @@ const char * const vmstat_text[] = { #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_VM_VMACACHE "vmacache_find_calls", "vmacache_find_hits", + "vmacache_full_flushes", #endif #endif /* CONFIG_VM_EVENTS_COUNTERS */ }; -- 1.8.4.5 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>