Re: [BUGFIX] vmstat: fix dirty threshold ordering

From: KOSAKI Motohiro
Date: Mon Nov 29 2010 - 06:21:46 EST


> The nr_dirty_[background_]threshold fields are misplaced before the
> numa_* fields, and users will read strange values.
>
> This is the right order. Before patch, nr_dirty_background_threshold
> will read as 0 (the value from numa_miss).
>
> numa_hit 128501
> numa_miss 0
> numa_foreign 0
> numa_interleave 7388
> numa_local 128501
> numa_other 0
> nr_dirty_threshold 144291
> nr_dirty_background_threshold 72145
>
> Cc: Michael Rubin <mrubin@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx>

Obviously. :-/

Thanks, Wu.

Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


> ---
> mm/vmstat.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> --- linux-next.orig/mm/vmstat.c 2010-11-28 16:02:12.000000000 +0800
> +++ linux-next/mm/vmstat.c 2010-11-28 16:02:24.000000000 +0800
> @@ -750,8 +750,6 @@ static const char * const vmstat_text[]
> "nr_shmem",
> "nr_dirtied",
> "nr_written",
> - "nr_dirty_threshold",
> - "nr_dirty_background_threshold",
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
> "numa_hit",
> @@ -761,6 +759,8 @@ static const char * const vmstat_text[]
> "numa_local",
> "numa_other",
> #endif
> + "nr_dirty_threshold",
> + "nr_dirty_background_threshold",
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
> "pgpgin",
>
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