Re: [PATCH] Hugepages should be accounted as unevictable pages.

[KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>]

> Looking at the output of /proc/meminfo, a user might get confused in thinking
> that there are zero unevictable pages, though, in reality their can be
> hugepages which are inherently unevictable. 
> 
> Though hugepages are not handled by the unevictable lru framework, they are
> infact unevictable in nature and global statistics counter should reflect that. 
> 
> For instance, I have allocated 20 huge pages on my system, meminfo shows this 
> 
> Unevictable:           0 kB
> Mlocked:               0 kB
> HugePages_Total:      20
> HugePages_Free:       20
> HugePages_Rsvd:        0
> HugePages_Surp:        0
> 
> After the patch:
> 
> Unevictable:       81920 kB
> Mlocked:               0 kB
> HugePages_Total:      20
> HugePages_Free:       20
> HugePages_Rsvd:        0
> HugePages_Surp:        0

At first, We should clarify the spec of unevictable.
Currently, Unevictable field mean the number of pages in unevictable-lru
and hugepage never insert any lru.

I think this patch will change this rule.



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