mm: export NR_SHMEM via sysinfo(2) / si_meminfo() interfaces

Historically, we exported shared pages to userspace via sysinfo(2)
sharedram and /proc/meminfo's "MemShared" fields.  With the advent of
tmpfs, from kernel v2.4 onward, that old way for accounting shared mem
was deemed inaccurate and we started to export a hard-coded 0 for
sysinfo.sharedram.  Later on, during the 2.6 timeframe, "MemShared" got
re-introduced to /proc/meminfo re-branded as "Shmem", but we're still
reporting sysinfo.sharedmem as that old hard-coded zero, which makes the
"shared memory" report inconsistent across interfaces.

This patch leverages the addition of explicit accounting for pages used
by shmem/tmpfs -- "4b02108 mm: oom analysis: add shmem vmstat" -- in
order to make the users of sysinfo(2) and si_meminfo*() friends aware of
that vmstat entry and make them report it consistently across the
interfaces, as well to make sysinfo(2) returned data consistent with our
current API documentation states.

Signed-off-by: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index c1c6cb78e5ca..0987ac9f0a4e 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -3047,7 +3047,7 @@ static inline void show_node(struct zone *zone)
 void si_meminfo(struct sysinfo *val)
 {
 	val->totalram = totalram_pages;
-	val->sharedram = 0;
+	val->sharedram = global_page_state(NR_SHMEM);
 	val->freeram = global_page_state(NR_FREE_PAGES);
 	val->bufferram = nr_blockdev_pages();
 	val->totalhigh = totalhigh_pages;
@@ -3067,6 +3067,7 @@ void si_meminfo_node(struct sysinfo *val, int nid)
 	for (zone_type = 0; zone_type < MAX_NR_ZONES; zone_type++)
 		managed_pages += pgdat->node_zones[zone_type].managed_pages;
 	val->totalram = managed_pages;
+	val->sharedram = node_page_state(nid, NR_SHMEM);
 	val->freeram = node_page_state(nid, NR_FREE_PAGES);
 #ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM
 	val->totalhigh = pgdat->node_zones[ZONE_HIGHMEM].managed_pages;