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SubjectRe: [patch v2] mm, vmstat: print non-populated zones in zoneinfo
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On 03/04/2017 04:23 AM, David Rientjes wrote:
> Initscripts can use the information (protection levels) from
> /proc/zoneinfo to configure vm.lowmem_reserve_ratio at boot.
>
> vm.lowmem_reserve_ratio is an array of ratios for each configured zone on
> the system. If a zone is not populated on an arch, /proc/zoneinfo
> suppresses its output.
>
> This results in there not being a 1:1 mapping between the set of zones
> emitted by /proc/zoneinfo and the zones configured by
> vm.lowmem_reserve_ratio.
>
> This patch shows statistics for non-populated zones in /proc/zoneinfo.
> The zones exist and hold a spot in the vm.lowmem_reserve_ratio array.
> Without this patch, it is not possible to determine which index in the
> array controls which zone if one or more zones on the system are not
> populated.
>
> Remaining users of walk_zones_in_node() are unchanged. Files such as
> /proc/pagetypeinfo require certain zone data to be initialized properly
> for display, which is not done for unpopulated zones.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>

Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

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