The patch titled
Subject: /proc/meminfo: exclude shmem from "Cached"
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
mm-change-meminfo-cached-calculation.patch
This patch should soon appear at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-change-meminfo-cached-calculation.patch
and later at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-change-meminfo-cached-calculation.patch
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From: "Wang, Yalin" <Yalin.Wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: /proc/meminfo: exclude shmem from "Cached"
Subtract sharedram (shmem) from "Cached". sharedram can only be swapped
into swap partitions so it should be treated as swap pages, not as cached
pages.
Signed-off-by: Yalin Wang <yalin.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/proc/meminfo.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN fs/proc/meminfo.c~mm-change-meminfo-cached-calculation fs/proc/meminfo.c
--- a/fs/proc/meminfo.c~mm-change-meminfo-cached-calculation
+++ a/fs/proc/meminfo.c
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ static int meminfo_proc_show(struct seq_
committed = percpu_counter_read_positive(&vm_committed_as);
cached = global_page_state(NR_FILE_PAGES) -
- total_swapcache_pages() - i.bufferram;
+ total_swapcache_pages() - i.bufferram - i.sharedram;
if (cached < 0)
cached = 0;
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from Yalin.Wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
mm-add-vm_bug_on_page-for-page_mapcount.patch
mm-add-kpf_zero_page-flag-for-proc-kpageflags.patch
mm-change-meminfo-cached-calculation.patch
mm-change-meminfo-cached-calculation-fix.patch
linux-next.patch
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