On Wed, 25 Nov 2015, Michal Hocko wrote: > > Simply remove the counter from the vmstat handling and do it differently > > then. > > We definitely do not want yet another set of counters. vmstat counters > are not only to be exported into the userspace. We have in kernel users > as well. I do agree that there are users who can cope with some level of > imprecision though and those which depend on the accuracy can use > zone_page_state_snapshot which doesn't impose any overhead on others. > [...]
Ok then the proper patch would be to use zone_page_state() instead of zone_page_state() here instead of modifying zone_page_state(). -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
