Re: [PATCH] memory counting fix

[Marcelo Tosatti]

I dont see why reserved pages shouldnt be counted in the processes RSS.

What I'm missing here, Jaroslav?

On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Jaroslav Kysela wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> 	this fixes rss pages counting for drivers which returns a reserved
> page from the nopage callback (like ALSA). Thank you for applying to the
> 2.4 tree.
> 
> ===== memory.c 1.56 vs edited =====
> --- 1.56/mm/memory.c	Fri Apr  5 20:06:57 2002
> +++ edited/memory.c	Tue Sep 30 13:10:20 2003
> @@ -1287,7 +1287,8 @@
>  	 */
>  	/* Only go through if we didn't race with anybody else... */
>  	if (pte_none(*page_table)) {
> -		++mm->rss;
> +		if (!PageReserved(new_page))
> +			++mm->rss;
>  		flush_page_to_ram(new_page);
>  		flush_icache_page(vma, new_page);
>  		entry = mk_pte(new_page, vma->vm_page_prot);

I dont see why 

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