From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Return-Path: <linux-kernel-owner+w=401wt.eu-S1755177AbZGIUiP@vger.kernel.org>
Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand
	id S1755177AbZGIUiP (ORCPT <rfc822;w@1wt.eu>);
	Thu, 9 Jul 2009 16:38:15 -0400
Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754163AbZGIUiB
	(ORCPT <rfc822;linux-kernel-outgoing>);
	Thu, 9 Jul 2009 16:38:01 -0400
Received: from smtp3.ultrahosting.com ([74.213.175.254]:42308 "EHLO
	smtp.ultrahosting.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org
	with ESMTP id S1753764AbZGIUiA (ORCPT
	<rfc822;linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>);
	Thu, 9 Jul 2009 16:38:00 -0400
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 16:37:34 -0400 (EDT)
From: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
X-X-Sender: cl@gentwo.org
To: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
       Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>,
       David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
       Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] add buffer cache information to show_free_areas()
In-Reply-To: <20090709171027.23C0.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com>
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0907091635070.17835@gentwo.org>
References: <20090709165820.23B7.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> <20090709171027.23C0.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com>
User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (DEB 962 2008-03-14)
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
List-ID: <linux-kernel.vger.kernel.org>
X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org

On Thu, 9 Jul 2009, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:

> Subject: [PATCH] add buffer cache information to show_free_areas()
>
> When administrator analysis memory shortage reason from OOM log, They
> often need to know rest number of cache like pages.

Maybe:


"
It is often useful to know the statistics for all pages that are handled
like page cache pages when looking at OOM log output.

Therefore show_free_areas() should also display buffer cache statistics.
"