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 <g...@fb.com> >>> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vba...@suse.cz> >>> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <wi...@infradead.org> >>> Cc: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org> >>> Cc: Alexander Viro <v...@zeniv.linux.org.uk> >>> Cc: Michal Hocko <mho...@suse.com> >>> Cc: Johannes Weiner <han...@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-d7af13c6b...@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).
