[PATCH 4.14 084/109] mm: dont show nr_indirectly_reclaimable in /proc/vmstat

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-10-16T17:22:30Z

From: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>

commit 7aaf7727235870f497eb928f728f7773d6df3b40 upstream.

Don't show nr_indirectly_reclaimable in /proc/vmstat, because there is
no need to export this vm counter to userspace, and some changes are
expected in reclaimable object accounting, which can alter this counter.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180425191422.9159-1-guro@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
mm/vmstat.c | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/mm/vmstat.c
+++ b/mm/vmstat.c
@@ -1090,7 +1090,7 @@ const char * const vmstat_text[] = {
"nr_vmscan_immediate_reclaim",
"nr_dirtied",
"nr_written",
- "nr_indirectly_reclaimable",
+ "", /* nr_indirectly_reclaimable */

/* enum writeback_stat_item counters */
"nr_dirty_threshold",
@@ -1673,6 +1673,10 @@ static int vmstat_show(struct seq_file *
unsigned long *l = arg;
unsigned long off = l - (unsigned long *)m->private;

+ /* Skip hidden vmstat items. */
+ if (*vmstat_text[off] == '\0')
+ return 0;
+
seq_puts(m, vmstat_text[off]);
seq_put_decimal_ull(m, " ", *l);
seq_putc(m, '\n');