proc: meminfo: estimate available memory more conservatively
authorJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Thu, 14 Jan 2016 23:20:18 +0000 (15:20 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 15 Jan 2016 00:00:49 +0000 (16:00 -0800)
commit84ad5802a33a4964a49b8f7d24d80a214a096b19
treeb10ada33ff0dbad4bee898d7fd1dde92016d4f24
parenta8d0143730d7b42c9fe6d1435d92ecce6863a62a
proc: meminfo: estimate available memory more conservatively

The MemAvailable item in /proc/meminfo is to give users a hint of how
much memory is allocatable without causing swapping, so it excludes the
zones' low watermarks as unavailable to userspace.

However, for a userspace allocation, kswapd will actually reclaim until
the free pages hit a combination of the high watermark and the page
allocator's lowmem protection that keeps a certain amount of DMA and
DMA32 memory from userspace as well.

Subtract the full amount we know to be unavailable to userspace from the
number of free pages when calculating MemAvailable.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
fs/proc/meminfo.c