The patch titled Subject: Documentation: clarify in calculating zone protection has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was mm-page_alloc-fix-a-terrible-misleading-comment-fix.patch This patch was dropped because it was folded into mm-page_alloc-fix-a-terrible-misleading-comment.patch ------------------------------------------------------ From: Yaowei Bai <bywxiaobai@xxxxxxx> Subject: Documentation: clarify in calculating zone protection Every zone's protection is calculated from managed_pages not present_pages, to avoid misleading, correct it. Signed-off-by: Yaowei Bai <bywxiaobai@xxxxxxx> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt~mm-page_alloc-fix-a-terrible-misleading-comment-fix Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt --- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt~mm-page_alloc-fix-a-terrible-misleading-comment-fix +++ a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt @@ -349,7 +349,7 @@ zone[i]'s protection[j] is calculated by (i < j): zone[i]->protection[j] - = (total sums of present_pages from zone[i+1] to zone[j] on the node) + = (total sums of managed_pages from zone[i+1] to zone[j] on the node) / lowmem_reserve_ratio[i]; (i = j): (should not be protected. = 0; @@ -360,7 +360,7 @@ The default values of lowmem_reserve_rat 256 (if zone[i] means DMA or DMA32 zone) 32 (others). As above expression, they are reciprocal number of ratio. -256 means 1/256. # of protection pages becomes about "0.39%" of total present +256 means 1/256. # of protection pages becomes about "0.39%" of total managed pages of higher zones on the node. If you would like to protect more pages, smaller values are effective. _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from bywxiaobai@xxxxxxx are mm-page_alloc-fix-a-terrible-misleading-comment.patch mm-page_alloc-change-sysctl_lower_zone_reserve_ratio-to-sysctl_lowmem_reserve_ratio.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html