writeback: add nr_dirtied and nr_written to /proc/vmstat
authorMichael Rubin <mrubin@google.com>
Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:21:35 +0000 (14:21 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 26 Oct 2010 23:52:06 +0000 (16:52 -0700)
commitea941f0e2a8c02ae876cd73deb4e1557248f258c
treed2006c10cce4f134dc83f7f5aaa1d0096902cc1a
parentf629d1c9bd0dbc44a6c4f9a4a67d1646c42bfc6f
writeback: add nr_dirtied and nr_written to /proc/vmstat

To help developers and applications gain visibility into writeback
behaviour adding two entries to vm_stat_items and /proc/vmstat.  This will
allow us to track the "written" and "dirtied" counts.

   # grep nr_dirtied /proc/vmstat
   nr_dirtied 3747
   # grep nr_written /proc/vmstat
   nr_written 3618

Signed-off-by: Michael Rubin <mrubin@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/mmzone.h
mm/page-writeback.c
mm/vmstat.c