From: "Michal Koutný" <mkoutny@suse.com>
To: Doehyun Baek <doehyunbaek@gmail.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>,
Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>,
Yosry Ahmed <yosry@kernel.org>, Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>,
cgroups@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Docs/admin-guide/cgroup-v2: fix memory.stat doc details
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2026 16:59:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ajlLhFnMZGoVxLE6@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260620122751.388770-1-doehyunbaek@gmail.com>
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On Sat, Jun 20, 2026 at 12:27:51PM +0000, Doehyun Baek <doehyunbaek@gmail.com> wrote:
> Fix minor cgroup v2 memory.stat documentation issues. Correct the
> vmalloc per-node marker now that vmalloc uses the native NR_VMALLOC node
> stat, and document zswap_incomp as a byte-valued memory amount instead
> of as a page counter.
>
> Fixes: c466412c73c3 ("mm: memcontrol: switch to native NR_VMALLOC vmstat counter")
> Fixes: 5ad41a38c364 ("mm: zswap: add per-memcg stat for incompressible pages")
> Signed-off-by: Doehyun Baek <doehyunbaek@gmail.com>
> ---
> Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst
> index 993446ab66d0..ce6741f78f4f 100644
> --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst
> @@ -1570,7 +1570,7 @@ The following nested keys are defined.
> sock (npn)
> Amount of memory used in network transmission buffers
>
> - vmalloc (npn)
> + vmalloc
> Amount of memory used for vmap backed memory.
The vmalloc change looks OK...
>
> shmem
> @@ -1735,7 +1735,7 @@ The following nested keys are defined.
> Number of pages written from zswap to swap.
>
> zswap_incomp
> - Number of incompressible pages currently stored in zswap
> + Amount of memory used by incompressible pages currently stored in zswap
> without compression. These pages could not be compressed to
> a size smaller than PAGE_SIZE, so they are stored as-is.
...but what do you mean by this?
As I'm looking at the code in obj_cgroup_charge_zswap() and
memcg_page_state_output_unit(), I'd say those are pages and the docs is
thus alright.
Thanks,
Michal
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-06-20 12:27 [PATCH] Docs/admin-guide/cgroup-v2: fix memory.stat doc details Doehyun Baek
2026-06-22 14:59 ` Michal Koutný [this message]
2026-06-22 15:26 ` Doehyun Baek
2026-06-22 16:25 ` Michal Koutný
2026-06-22 16:41 ` Nhat Pham
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