Commit d0480be4 authored by Wang Sheng-Hui's avatar Wang Sheng-Hui Committed by Linus Torvalds

mm: update the description for vm_total_pages

vm_total_pages is calculated by nr_free_pagecache_pages(), which counts
the number of pages which are beyond the high watermark within all
zones.  So vm_total_pages is not equal to total number of pages which
the VM controls.
Signed-off-by: default avatarWang Sheng-Hui <shhuiw@gmail.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 9aed8614
...@@ -137,7 +137,11 @@ struct scan_control { ...@@ -137,7 +137,11 @@ struct scan_control {
* From 0 .. 100. Higher means more swappy. * From 0 .. 100. Higher means more swappy.
*/ */
int vm_swappiness = 60; int vm_swappiness = 60;
unsigned long vm_total_pages; /* The total number of pages which the VM controls */ /*
* The total number of pages which are beyond the high watermark within all
* zones.
*/
unsigned long vm_total_pages;
static LIST_HEAD(shrinker_list); static LIST_HEAD(shrinker_list);
static DECLARE_RWSEM(shrinker_rwsem); static DECLARE_RWSEM(shrinker_rwsem);
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