Re: [PATCH v6, part3 15/16] mm: report available pages as "MemTotal"for each NUMA node

[Sergei Shtylyov]

Hello.

On 05/11/2013 09:34 PM, Jiang Liu wrote:

   I've noticed a small typo in the changelog.

> As reported by https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53501,
> "MemTotal" from /proc/meminfo means memory pages managed by the buddy
> system (managed_pages), but "MemTotal" from /sys/.../node/nodex/meminfo
> means phsical pages present (present_pages) within the NUMA node.

    s/phsical/physical/

> There's a difference between managed_pages and present_pages due to
> bootmem allocator and reserved pages.
>
> And Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt says
>      MemTotal: Total usable ram (i.e. physical ram minus a few reserved
>                bits and the kernel binary code)
>
> So change /sys/.../node/nodex/meminfo to report available pages within
> the node as "MemTotal".
>
> Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: sworddragon2@xxxxxxx
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx
> Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

WBR, Sergei

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