The patch titled fix accounting in vmscan.c for memory controller has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is per-zone-and-reclaim-enhancements-for-memory-controller-take-3-modifies-vmscanc-for-isolate-globa-cgroup-lru-activity-fix-accounting-in-vmscanc-for-memory-controller.patch *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: fix accounting in vmscan.c for memory controller From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Some amount of accounting is done while page reclaiming. Now, there are 2 types of page reclaim (if memory controller is used) - global: shortage of (global) pages. - under cgroup: use up to limit. I think 2 accountings, ALLOCSTALL and DIRECT should be accounted only under global lru scan. They are accounted against memory shortage at alloc_pages(). Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/vmscan.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN mm/vmscan.c~per-zone-and-reclaim-enhancements-for-memory-controller-take-3-modifies-vmscanc-for-isolate-globa-cgroup-lru-activity-fix-accounting-in-vmscanc-for-memory-controller mm/vmscan.c --- a/mm/vmscan.c~per-zone-and-reclaim-enhancements-for-memory-controller-take-3-modifies-vmscanc-for-isolate-globa-cgroup-lru-activity-fix-accounting-in-vmscanc-for-memory-controller +++ a/mm/vmscan.c @@ -889,8 +889,9 @@ static unsigned long shrink_inactive_lis if (current_is_kswapd()) { __count_zone_vm_events(PGSCAN_KSWAPD, zone, nr_scan); __count_vm_events(KSWAPD_STEAL, nr_freed); - } else + } else if (scan_global_lru(sc)) __count_zone_vm_events(PGSCAN_DIRECT, zone, nr_scan); + __count_zone_vm_events(PGSTEAL, zone, nr_freed); if (nr_taken == 0) @@ -1326,7 +1327,8 @@ static unsigned long do_try_to_free_page unsigned long lru_pages = 0; int i; - count_vm_event(ALLOCSTALL); + if (scan_global_lru(sc)) + count_vm_event(ALLOCSTALL); /* * mem_cgroup will not do shrink_slab. */ _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are git-x86.patch swapoff-scan-ptes-preemptibly.patch memory-hotplug-add-removable-to-sysfs-to-show-memblock-removability.patch add-remove_memory-for-ppc64-2.patch enable-hotplug-memory-remove-for-ppc64.patch add-arch-specific-walk_memory_remove-for-ppc64.patch mm-dont-waste-swap-on-locked-pages.patch memcgroup-temporarily-revert-swapoff-mod.patch memory-controller-improve-user-interface-memory-controller-enhancements-for-reclaiming-take2-possible-race-fix-in-res_counter.patch memory-controller-make-charging-gfp-mask-aware-fix.patch bugfix-for-memory-cgroup-controller-charge-refcnt-race-fix.patch bugfix-for-memory-cgroup-controller-fix-error-handling-path-in-mem_charge_cgroup.patch bugfix-for-memory-controller-add-helper-function-for-assigning-cgroup-to-page.patch bugfix-for-memory-cgroup-controller-avoid-pagelru-page-in-mem_cgroup_isolate_pages.patch bugfix-for-memory-cgroup-controller-avoid-pagelru-page-in-mem_cgroup_isolate_pages-fix.patch bugfix-for-memory-cgroup-controller-migration-under-memory-controller-fix.patch memory-cgroup-enhancements-fix-zone-handling-in-try_to_free_mem_cgroup_page.patch memory-cgroup-enhancements-fix-zone-handling-in-try_to_free_mem_cgroup_page-warning-fix.patch memory-cgroup-enhancements-force_empty-interface-for-dropping-all-account-in-empty-cgroup.patch memory-cgroup-enhancements-remember-a-page-is-charged-as-page-cache.patch memory-cgroup-enhancements-remember-a-page-is-on-active-list-of-cgroup-or-not.patch memory-cgroup-enhancements-add-status-accounting-function-for-memory-cgroup.patch memory-cgroup-enhancements-add-status-accounting-function-for-memory-cgroup-checkpatch-fixes.patch memory-cgroup-enhancements-add-status-accounting-function-for-memory-cgroup-fix-1.patch memory-cgroup-enhancements-add-status-accounting-function-for-memory-cgroup-uninlining.patch memory-cgroup-enhancements-add-status-accounting-function-for-memory-cgroup-fix-2.patch memory-cgroup-enhancements-add-memorystat-file.patch memory-cgroup-enhancements-add-memorystat-file-checkpatch-fixes.patch memory-cgroup-enhancements-add-memorystat-file-printk-fix.patch memory-cgroup-enhancements-add-pre_destroy-handler.patch memory-cgroup-enhancements-implicit-force_empty-at-rmdir.patch per-zone-and-reclaim-enhancements-for-memory-controller-take-3-add-scan_global_lru-macro.patch per-zone-and-reclaim-enhancements-for-memory-controller-take-3-nid-zid-helper-function-for-cgroup.patch per-zone-and-reclaim-enhancements-for-memory-controller-take-3-per-zone-active-inactive-counter.patch per-zone-and-reclaim-enhancements-for-memory-controller-take-3-per-zone-active-inactive-counter-memory-controller-enhancements-for-reclaiming-take2-clean-up-remove-unused-variable.patch per-zone-and-reclaim-enhancements-for-memory-controller-take-3-per-zone-active-inactive-counter-memory-controller-enhancements-for-reclaiming-take2-add-bug_on-in-mem_cgroup_zoneinfo.patch per-zone-and-reclaim-enhancements-for-memory-controller-take-3-calculate-mapper_ratio-per-cgroup.patch per-zone-and-reclaim-enhancements-for-memory-controller-take-3-calculate-active-inactive-imbalance-per-cgroup.patch per-zone-and-reclaim-enhancements-for-memory-controller-take-3-remember-reclaim-priority-in-memory-cgroup.patch per-zone-and-reclaim-enhancements-for-memory-controller-take-3-remember-reclaim-priority-in-memory-cgroup-fix.patch per-zone-and-reclaim-enhancements-for-memory-controller-take-3-remember-reclaim-priority-in-memory-cgroup-fix-2.patch per-zone-and-reclaim-enhancements-for-memory-controller-take-3-calculate-the-number-of-pages-to-be-scanned-per-cgroup.patch per-zone-and-reclaim-enhancements-for-memory-controller-take-3-modifies-vmscanc-for-isolate-globa-cgroup-lru-activity.patch per-zone-and-reclaim-enhancements-for-memory-controller-take-3-modifies-vmscanc-for-isolate-globa-cgroup-lru-activity-fix.patch per-zone-and-reclaim-enhancements-for-memory-controller-take-3-modifies-vmscanc-for-isolate-globa-cgroup-lru-activity-fix-accounting-in-vmscanc-for-memory-controller.patch per-zone-and-reclaim-enhancements-for-memory-controller-take-3-per-zone-lru-for-cgroup.patch per-zone-and-reclaim-enhancements-for-memory-controller-take-3-per-zone-lru-for-cgroup-bugfix-for-memory-cgroup-per-zone-struct-allocation.patch per-zone-and-reclaim-enhancements-for-memory-controller-take-3-per-zone-lru-for-cgroup-memory-controller-enhancements-for-reclaiming-take2-define-free_mem_cgroup_per_zone_info.patch per-zone-and-reclaim-enhancements-for-memory-controller-take-3-per-zone-lock-for-cgroup.patch update-documentation-controller-memorytxt.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