Re: [PATCH] meminfo: add Cached underflow check

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

Martin Hicks <mort@sgi.com> wrote:
>
> Working on some code lately I've been getting huge values
> for "Cached".  The cause is that get_page_cache_size() is an
> approximate value, and for a sufficiently small returned value
> of get_page_cache_size() the value underflows.

OK..

I think I'd prefer to do it this way - it's simpler and the original patch
had a teeny race wrt changes in total_swapcache_pages.


diff -puN fs/proc/proc_misc.c~meminfo-add-cached-underflow-check fs/proc/proc_misc.c
--- 25/fs/proc/proc_misc.c~meminfo-add-cached-underflow-check	Mon Apr  4 15:06:38 2005
+++ 25-akpm/fs/proc/proc_misc.c	Mon Apr  4 15:10:24 2005
@@ -126,6 +126,7 @@ static int meminfo_read_proc(char *page,
 	unsigned long committed;
 	unsigned long allowed;
 	struct vmalloc_info vmi;
+	long cached;
 
 	get_page_state(&ps);
 	get_zone_counts(&active, &inactive, &free);
@@ -140,6 +141,10 @@ static int meminfo_read_proc(char *page,
 	allowed = ((totalram_pages - hugetlb_total_pages())
 		* sysctl_overcommit_ratio / 100) + total_swap_pages;
 
+	cached = get_page_cache_size() - total_swapcache_pages - i.bufferram;
+	if (cached < 0)
+		cached = 0;
+
 	get_vmalloc_info(&vmi);
 
 	/*
@@ -172,7 +177,7 @@ static int meminfo_read_proc(char *page,
 		K(i.totalram),
 		K(i.freeram),
 		K(i.bufferram),
-		K(get_page_cache_size()-total_swapcache_pages-i.bufferram),
+		K(cached),
 		K(total_swapcache_pages),
 		K(active),
 		K(inactive),
_