Re: [PATCH RFC 4/4] drivers/base/node: add demote_src and demote_dst to numastat

["Zhijian Li (Fujitsu)" <lizhijian@fujitsu.com>]

On 02/11/2023 13:40, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>> index 27e8502548a7..d3fc70599b6a 100644
>> --- a/drivers/base/node.c
>> +++ b/drivers/base/node.c
>> @@ -496,20 +496,32 @@ static DEVICE_ATTR(meminfo, 0444, node_read_meminfo, NULL);
>>   static ssize_t node_read_numastat(struct device *dev,
>>   				  struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf)
>>   {
>> +	struct pglist_data *pgdat = NODE_DATA(dev->id);
>> +	unsigned long demote_src, demote_dst;
>> +
>>   	fold_vm_numa_events();
>> +	demote_src = node_page_state_pages(pgdat, PGDEMOTE_SRC_KSWAPD) +
>> +		     node_page_state_pages(pgdat, PGDEMOTE_SRC_DIRECT) +
>> +		     node_page_state_pages(pgdat, PGDEMOTE_SRC_KHUGEPAGED);
>> +	demote_dst = node_page_state_pages(pgdat, PGDEMOTE_DST_KSWAPD) +
>> +		     node_page_state_pages(pgdat, PGDEMOTE_DST_DIRECT) +
>> +		     node_page_state_pages(pgdat, PGDEMOTE_DST_KHUGEPAGED);
>>   	return sysfs_emit(buf,
>>   			  "numa_hit %lu\n"
>>   			  "numa_miss %lu\n"
>>   			  "numa_foreign %lu\n"
>>   			  "interleave_hit %lu\n"
>>   			  "local_node %lu\n"
>> -			  "other_node %lu\n",
>> +			  "other_node %lu\n"
>> +			  "demote_src %lu\n"
>> +			  "demote_dst %lu\n",
> This sysfs file is already a total abuse of sysfs so please, do NOT make
> it worse by adding more fields, that's just wrong and something I can
> not take at all for obvious reasons.
> 

Alright, thank you for your feedback. We will reconsider other options if necessary.

Thanks
Zhijian


> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h