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SubjectRe: [PATCH] mm: don't show nr_indirectly_reclaimable in /proc/vmstat
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On 04/26/2018 11:55 PM, David Rientjes wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Apr 2018, Michal Hocko wrote:
>
>>> Don't show nr_indirectly_reclaimable in /proc/vmstat,
>>> because there is no need in exporting this vm counter
>>> to the userspace, and some changes are expected
>>> in reclaimable object accounting, which can alter
>>> this counter.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
>>> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
>>> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
>>> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
>>> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
>>> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
>>> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
>>
>> This is quite a hack. I would much rather revert the counter and fixed
>> it the way Vlastimil has proposed. But if there is a strong opposition
>> to the revert then this is probably the simples thing to do. Therefore
>>
>
> Implementing this counter as a vmstat doesn't make much sense based on how
> it's used. Do you have a link to what Vlastimil proposed? I haven't seen
> mention of alternative ideas.

It was in the original thread, see e.g.
<08524819-14ef-81d0-fa90-d7af13c6b9d5@suse.cz>

However it will take some time to get that in mainline, and meanwhile
the current implementation does prevent a DOS. So I doubt it can be
fully reverted - as a compromise I just didn't want the counter to
become ABI. TBH though, other people at LSF/MM didn't seem concerned
that /proc/vmstat is an ABI that we can't change (i.e. counters have
been presumably removed in the past already).

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