Re: [patch-2.4.0-test11] show_mem() to dump free pages

From: Tigran Aivazian (tigran@veritas.com)
Date: Tue Nov 21 2000 - 18:22:52 EST


On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Tigran Aivazian wrote:

> Hi Linus,
>
> In arch/i386/mm/init.c:show_mem() we calculate the number of free pages
> but don't printk it out. Therefore, we must either a) remove the variable
> and the calculation or b) make use of it. I think b) is obviously better.
>
> The patch below was tested under 2.4.0-test11.

apparently, IA64, SuperH and S390 architectures are just as broken as i386
wrt not showing 'free'in show_mem() so here is more complete patch which
covers all architectures:

--- linux/arch/ia64/mm/init.c Tue Oct 10 01:54:56 2000
+++ work/arch/ia64/mm/init.c Tue Nov 21 23:18:31 2000
@@ -264,6 +264,7 @@
                         shared += page_count(mem_map + i) - 1;
         }
         printk("%d pages of RAM\n", total);
+ printk("%d free pages\n", free);
         printk("%d reserved pages\n", reserved);
         printk("%d pages shared\n", shared);
         printk("%d pages swap cached\n", cached);
--- linux/arch/s390/mm/init.c Mon Oct 16 20:58:51 2000
+++ work/arch/s390/mm/init.c Tue Nov 21 23:19:51 2000
@@ -211,6 +211,7 @@
                         shared += atomic_read(&mem_map[i].count) - 1;
         }
         printk("%d pages of RAM\n",total);
+ printk("%d free pages\n",free);
         printk("%d reserved pages\n",reserved);
         printk("%d pages shared\n",shared);
         printk("%d pages swap cached\n",cached);
--- linux/arch/sh/mm/init.c Mon Oct 16 20:58:51 2000
+++ work/arch/sh/mm/init.c Tue Nov 21 23:20:28 2000
@@ -169,6 +169,7 @@
                         shared += page_count(mem_map+i) - 1;
         }
         printk("%d pages of RAM\n",total);
+ printk("%d free pages\n",free);
         printk("%d reserved pages\n",reserved);
         printk("%d pages shared\n",shared);
         printk("%d pages swap cached\n",cached);
--- arch/i386/mm/init.c.0 Tue Nov 21 22:00:52 2000
+++ arch/i386/mm/init.c Tue Nov 21 22:00:36 2000
@@ -221,6 +221,7 @@
         }
         printk("%d pages of RAM\n", total);
         printk("%d pages of HIGHMEM\n",highmem);
+ printk("%d free pages\n",free);
         printk("%d reserved pages\n",reserved);
         printk("%d pages shared\n",shared);
         printk("%d pages swap cached\n",cached);

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