Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm: rename mm->nr_ptes to mm->nr_pgtables

From: Cyrill Gorcunov
Date: Wed Jan 14 2015 - 09:48:50 EST


On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 04:33:58PM +0200, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> >
> > It looks like this doesn't matter. The statistics here prints the size
> > of summary memory occupied for pte_t entries, here PTRS_PER_PTE * sizeof(pte_t)
> > is only valid for, once we start accounting pmd into same counter it implies
> > that PTRS_PER_PTE == PTRS_PER_PMD, which is not true for all archs
> > (if I understand the idea of accounting here right).
>
> Yeah. good catch. Thank you.
>
> I'll respin with separate counter for pmd tables. It seems the best
> option.

Sounds good to me, thanks.
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