linux/mm
Hugh Dickins 1b76b02f15 mm: raise MemFree by reverting percpu_pagelist_fraction to 0
Why is there less MemFree than there used to be?  It perturbed a test,
so I've just been bisecting linux-next, and now find the offender went
upstream yesterday.

Commit 93278814d3 "mm: fix division by 0 in percpu_pagelist_fraction()"
mistakenly initialized percpu_pagelist_fraction to the sysctl's minimum 8,
which leaves 1/8th of memory on percpu lists (on each cpu??); but most of
us expect it to be left unset at 0 (and it's not then used as a divisor).

  MemTotal: 8061476kB  8061476kB  8061476kB  8061476kB  8061476kB  8061476kB
  Repetitive test with percpu_pagelist_fraction 8:
  MemFree:  6948420kB  6237172kB  6949696kB  6840692kB  6949048kB  6862984kB
  Same test with percpu_pagelist_fraction back to 0:
  MemFree:  7945000kB  7944908kB  7948568kB  7949060kB  7948796kB  7948812kB

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
[ We really should fix the crazy sysctl interface too, but that's a
  separate thing - Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-05-11 09:23:39 -07:00
..
backing-dev.c backing-dev: fix wakeup timer races with bdi_unregister() 2012-02-01 16:52:49 +08:00
bootmem.c bootmem/sparsemem: remove limit constraint in alloc_bootmem_section 2012-03-21 17:54:58 -07:00
bounce.c mm: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic() 2012-03-20 21:48:27 +08:00
cleancache.c mm: cleancache: Use __read_mostly as appropiate. 2012-01-23 16:08:09 -05:00
compaction.c mm: compaction: make compact_control order signed 2012-03-21 17:54:56 -07:00
debug-pagealloc.c mm, x86: Remove debug_pagealloc_enabled 2011-12-06 09:24:07 +01:00
dmapool.c mm: fix implicit stat.h usage in dmapool.c 2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
fadvise.c fadvise: only initiate writeback for specified range with FADV_DONTNEED 2012-01-10 16:30:43 -08:00
failslab.c switch debugfs to umode_t 2012-01-03 22:54:56 -05:00
filemap_xip.c mm/filemap_xip.c: fix race condition in xip_file_fault() 2012-02-03 16:16:41 -08:00
filemap.c radix-tree: use iterators in find_get_pages* functions 2012-03-28 17:14:37 -07:00
fremap.c mm: delete various needless include <linux/module.h> 2011-10-31 09:20:11 -04:00
highmem.c Merge branch 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux 2011-11-06 19:44:47 -08:00
huge_memory.c thp: optimize away unnecessary page table locking 2012-03-21 17:54:57 -07:00
hugetlb.c hugetlb: prevent BUG_ON in hugetlb_fault() -> hugetlb_cow() 2012-05-10 15:06:44 -07:00
hwpoison-inject.c HWPOISON: Clean up memory_failure() vs. __memory_failure() 2012-01-03 12:06:32 -08:00
init-mm.c atomic: use <linux/atomic.h> 2011-07-26 16:49:47 -07:00
internal.h mm: thp: tail page refcounting fix 2011-11-02 16:06:57 -07:00
Kconfig Merge branch 'master' into x86/memblock 2011-11-28 09:46:22 -08:00
Kconfig.debug mm: more intensive memory corruption debugging 2012-01-10 16:30:42 -08:00
kmemcheck.c
kmemleak-test.c
kmemleak.c kmemleak: Disable early logging when kmemleak is off by default 2012-01-20 16:57:05 +00:00
ksm.c ksm: cleanup: introduce find_mergeable_vma() 2012-03-21 17:54:59 -07:00
maccess.c mm: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h 2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
madvise.c coredump: add VM_NODUMP, MADV_NODUMP, MADV_CLEAR_NODUMP 2012-03-23 16:58:42 -07:00
Makefile Cross Memory Attach 2011-10-31 17:30:44 -07:00
memblock.c memblock: memblock should be able to handle zero length operations 2012-04-20 11:18:46 -07:00
memcontrol.c memcg: free spare array to avoid memory leak 2012-05-10 15:06:44 -07:00
memory_hotplug.c mm: compaction: introduce sync-light migration for use by compaction 2012-01-12 20:13:09 -08:00
memory-failure.c Merge branch 'x86-mce-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2012-03-22 09:42:04 -07:00
memory.c coredump: remove VM_ALWAYSDUMP flag 2012-03-23 16:58:42 -07:00
mempolicy.c mm: fix NULL ptr dereference in migrate_pages 2012-04-25 21:26:34 -07:00
mempool.c mempool: fix first round failure behavior 2012-01-10 16:30:45 -08:00
migrate.c mm: fix NULL ptr dereference in move_pages 2012-04-25 21:26:34 -07:00
mincore.c mm: thp: fix pmd_bad() triggering in code paths holding mmap_sem read mode 2012-03-21 17:54:54 -07:00
mlock.c vm: avoid using find_vma_prev() unnecessarily 2012-03-06 18:23:36 -08:00
mm_init.c mm: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h 2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
mmap.c kill mm argument of vm_munmap() 2012-04-21 01:58:20 -04:00
mmu_context.c mm, counters: remove task argument to sync_mm_rss() and __sync_task_rss_stat() 2012-03-21 17:54:59 -07:00
mmu_notifier.c mm: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h 2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
mmzone.c mm: delete various needless include <linux/module.h> 2011-10-31 09:20:11 -04:00
mprotect.c Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's patch-bomb) 2012-03-22 09:04:48 -07:00
mremap.c mm: collapse security_vm_enough_memory() variants into a single function 2012-02-14 10:45:39 +11:00
msync.c
nobootmem.c mm: nobootmem: fix sign extend problem in __free_pages_memory() 2012-05-10 15:06:44 -07:00
nommu.c kill mm argument of vm_munmap() 2012-04-21 01:58:20 -04:00
oom_kill.c signal: oom_kill_task: use SEND_SIG_FORCED instead of force_sig() 2012-03-23 16:58:41 -07:00
page_alloc.c mm: raise MemFree by reverting percpu_pagelist_fraction to 0 2012-05-11 09:23:39 -07:00
page_cgroup.c page_cgroup: fix horrid swap accounting regression 2012-03-06 08:18:23 -08:00
page_io.c
page_isolation.c
page-writeback.c Ext4 commits for 3.3 merge window; mostly cleanups and bug fixes 2012-03-28 10:02:55 -07:00
pagewalk.c mm: thp: fix pmd_bad() triggering in code paths holding mmap_sem read mode 2012-03-21 17:54:54 -07:00
percpu-km.c
percpu-vm.c percpu: use bitmap_clear 2012-01-20 09:23:16 -08:00
percpu.c kmemleak: Fix the kmemleak tracking of the percpu areas with !SMP 2012-05-09 10:13:29 -07:00
pgtable-generic.c thp: add HPAGE_PMD_* definitions for !CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 2012-03-21 17:55:02 -07:00
prio_tree.c
process_vm_access.c Fix race in process_vm_rw_core 2012-02-02 12:55:17 -08:00
quicklist.c mm: delete various needless include <linux/module.h> 2011-10-31 09:20:11 -04:00
readahead.c mm: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h 2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
rmap.c memcg: use new logic for page stat accounting 2012-03-21 17:55:01 -07:00
shmem.c Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's patch-bomb) 2012-03-22 09:04:48 -07:00
slab.c Merge branch 'slab/for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux 2012-03-28 15:04:26 -07:00
slob.c mm: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h 2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
slub.c Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's patch-bomb) 2012-03-28 17:19:28 -07:00
sparse-vmemmap.c mm: delete various needless include <linux/module.h> 2011-10-31 09:20:11 -04:00
sparse.c bootmem/sparsemem: remove limit constraint in alloc_bootmem_section 2012-03-21 17:54:58 -07:00
swap_state.c mm: fix s390 BUG by __set_page_dirty_no_writeback on swap 2012-04-23 18:19:22 -07:00
swap.c mm: drain percpu lru add/rotate page-vectors on cpu hot-unplug 2012-03-21 17:54:58 -07:00
swapfile.c swapon: check validity of swap_flags 2012-03-28 17:14:35 -07:00
thrash.c mm/thrash.c: quiet sparse noise 2011-10-31 17:30:50 -07:00
truncate.c mm for fs: add truncate_pagecache_range() 2012-03-28 17:14:35 -07:00
util.c procfs: mark thread stack correctly in proc/<pid>/maps 2012-03-21 17:54:58 -07:00
vmalloc.c mm: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic() 2012-03-20 21:48:27 +08:00
vmscan.c mm: fix up the vmscan stat in vmstat 2012-04-25 21:26:33 -07:00
vmstat.c mm: fix up the vmscan stat in vmstat 2012-04-25 21:26:33 -07:00