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authorYaowei Bai <bywxiaobai@163.com>2015-09-08 15:04:10 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-09-08 15:35:28 -0700
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mm/page_alloc.c: fix a misleading comment
The comment says that the per-cpu batchsize and zone watermarks are determined by present_pages which is definitely wrong, they are both calculated from managed_pages. Fix it. Signed-off-by: Yaowei Bai <bywxiaobai@163.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
index 9c3f2f8054b5..a4482fceacec 100644
--- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
@@ -349,7 +349,7 @@ zone[i]'s protection[j] is calculated by following expression.
(i < j):
zone[i]->protection[j]
- = (total sums of present_pages from zone[i+1] to zone[j] on the node)
+ = (total sums of managed_pages from zone[i+1] to zone[j] on the node)
/ lowmem_reserve_ratio[i];
(i = j):
(should not be protected. = 0;
@@ -360,7 +360,7 @@ The default values of lowmem_reserve_ratio[i] are
256 (if zone[i] means DMA or DMA32 zone)
32 (others).
As above expression, they are reciprocal number of ratio.
-256 means 1/256. # of protection pages becomes about "0.39%" of total present
+256 means 1/256. # of protection pages becomes about "0.39%" of total managed
pages of higher zones on the node.
If you would like to protect more pages, smaller values are effective.