On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 12:54:59PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> From: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
> 
> zone_reclaimable_pages counts how many pages are reclaimable in
> the given zone. This currently includes all pages on file lrus and
> anon lrus if there is an available swap storage. We do not consider
> NR_ISOLATED_{ANON,FILE} counters though which is not correct because
> these counters reflect temporarily isolated pages which are still
> reclaimable because they either get back to their LRU or get freed
> either by the page reclaim or page migration.
> 
> The number of these pages might be sufficiently high to confuse users of
> zone_reclaimable_pages (e.g. mbind can migrate large ranges of memory at
> once).

Sounds reasonable to me.

Reviewed-by: Vladimir Davydov <[email protected]>

Thanks,
Vladimir

> 
> Suggested-by: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
> ---
>  mm/vmscan.c | 6 ++++--
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
> index a4507ecaefbf..946d348f5040 100644
> --- a/mm/vmscan.c
> +++ b/mm/vmscan.c
> @@ -197,11 +197,13 @@ static unsigned long zone_reclaimable_pages(struct zone 
> *zone)
>       unsigned long nr;
>  
>       nr = zone_page_state(zone, NR_ACTIVE_FILE) +
> -          zone_page_state(zone, NR_INACTIVE_FILE);
> +          zone_page_state(zone, NR_INACTIVE_FILE) +
> +          zone_page_state(zone, NR_ISOLATED_FILE);
>  
>       if (get_nr_swap_pages() > 0)
>               nr += zone_page_state(zone, NR_ACTIVE_ANON) +
> -                   zone_page_state(zone, NR_INACTIVE_ANON);
> +                   zone_page_state(zone, NR_INACTIVE_ANON) +
> +                   zone_page_state(zone, NR_ISOLATED_ANON);
>  
>       return nr;
>  }
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