[PATCH] /proc/vmload memory_pressure meter

Paul Larson (plars@austin.ibm.com)
30 Aug 2001 10:47:46 +0000


This patch adds /proc/vmload that reports the current value of
memory_pressure. The idea came from an enhancement proposed on the
linux-mm bugzilla (#3007, but it seems to be down atm).

This patch was made against 2.4.10-pre2.

-Paul Larson

diff -urN linux-2.4.10-pre2/fs/proc/proc_misc.c linux-2.4.10-pre2-vmload/fs/proc/proc_misc.c
--- linux-2.4.10-pre2/fs/proc/proc_misc.c Thu Aug 30 09:51:47 2001
+++ linux-2.4.10-pre2-vmload/fs/proc/proc_misc.c Thu Aug 30 09:55:10 2001
@@ -199,6 +199,15 @@
#undef K
}

+vmload_read_proc(char *page, char **start, off_t off,
+ int count, int *eof, void *data) {
+ int len = 0;
+
+ len += sprintf(page+len, "%d\n", memory_pressure);
+ *eof = 1;
+ return len;
+}
+
static int version_read_proc(char *page, char **start, off_t off,
int count, int *eof, void *data)
{
@@ -518,6 +527,7 @@
{"loadavg", loadavg_read_proc},
{"uptime", uptime_read_proc},
{"meminfo", meminfo_read_proc},
+ {"vmload", vmload_read_proc},
{"version", version_read_proc},
{"cpuinfo", cpuinfo_read_proc},
#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_HARDWARE

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