mm: introduce NR_INDIRECTLY_RECLAIMABLE_BYTES
Patch series "indirectly reclaimable memory", v2.
This patchset introduces the concept of indirectly reclaimable memory
and applies it to fix the issue of when a big number of dentries with
external names can significantly affect the MemAvailable value.
This patch (of 3):
Introduce a concept of indirectly reclaimable memory and adds the
corresponding memory counter and /proc/vmstat item.
Indirectly reclaimable memory is any sort of memory, used by the kernel
(except of reclaimable slabs), which is actually reclaimable, i.e. will
be released under memory pressure.
The counter is in bytes, as it's not always possible to count such
objects in pages. The name contains BYTES by analogy to
NR_KERNEL_STACK_KB.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180305133743.12746-2-guro@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: 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>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Git-Commit: eb59254608bc1d42c4c6afdcdce9c0d3ce02b318
Git-Repo: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git
Change-Id: I6ea0d449210973c92f57f3b7f5173e1ec85c81f8
Signed-off-by: Vijayanand Jitta <vjitta@codeaurora.org>
diff --git a/mm/vmstat.c b/mm/vmstat.c
index 3d128da..fdd884a 100644
--- a/mm/vmstat.c
+++ b/mm/vmstat.c
@@ -973,6 +973,7 @@
"nr_vmscan_immediate_reclaim",
"nr_dirtied",
"nr_written",
+ "nr_indirectly_reclaimable",
/* enum writeback_stat_item counters */
"nr_dirty_threshold",