On Wed, 25 Nov 2015, Michal Hocko wrote: > > Simply remove the counter from the vmstat handling and do it differently > > then. > > We definitely do not want yet another set of counters. vmstat counters > are not only to be exported into the userspace. We have in kernel users > as well. I do agree that there are users who can cope with some level of > imprecision though and those which depend on the accuracy can use > zone_page_state_snapshot which doesn't impose any overhead on others. > [...] Ok then the proper patch would be to use zone_page_state() instead of zone_page_state() here instead of modifying zone_page_state(). -- 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>