Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 5 Jul 2009 19:21:59 +0800 | From | Wu Fengguang <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/5] add buffer cache information to show_free_areas() |
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On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 05:24:07PM +0800, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote: > Subject: [PATCH] add buffer cache information to show_free_areas() > > When administrator analysis memory shortage reason from OOM log, They > often need to know rest number of cache like pages.
nr_blockdev_pages() pages are also accounted in NR_FILE_PAGES.
> Then, show_free_areas() shouldn't only display page cache, but also it > should display buffer cache.
So if we are to add this, I'd suggest to put it close to the total pagecache line:
printk("%ld total pagecache pages\n", global_page_state(NR_FILE_PAGES)); + printk("%ld blkdev pagecache pages\n", nr_blockdev_pages());
Thanks, Fengguang
> > Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> > --- > mm/page_alloc.c | 3 ++- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > Index: b/mm/page_alloc.c > =================================================================== > --- a/mm/page_alloc.c > +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c > @@ -2118,7 +2118,7 @@ void show_free_areas(void) > printk("Active_anon:%lu active_file:%lu inactive_anon:%lu\n" > " inactive_file:%lu" > " unevictable:%lu" > - " dirty:%lu writeback:%lu unstable:%lu\n" > + " dirty:%lu writeback:%lu buffer:%lu unstable:%lu\n" > " free:%lu slab_reclaimable:%lu slab_unreclaimable:%lu\n" > " mapped:%lu pagetables:%lu bounce:%lu\n", > global_page_state(NR_ACTIVE_ANON), > @@ -2128,6 +2128,7 @@ void show_free_areas(void) > global_page_state(NR_UNEVICTABLE), > global_page_state(NR_FILE_DIRTY), > global_page_state(NR_WRITEBACK), > + K(nr_blockdev_pages()), > global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS), > global_page_state(NR_FREE_PAGES), > global_page_state(NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE), >
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