mm, vmscan: do not count freed pages as PGDEACTIVATE
PGDEACTIVATE represents the number of pages moved from the active list to the inactive list. At least this sounds like the original motivation of the counter. move_active_pages_to_lru, however, counts pages which got freed in the mean time as deactivated as well. This is a very rare event and counting them as deactivation in itself is not harmful but it makes the code more convoluted than necessary - we have to count both all pages and those which are freed which is a bit confusing. After this patch the PGDEACTIVATE should have a slightly more clear semantic and only count those pages which are moved from the active to the inactive list which is a plus. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170112211221.17636-1-mhocko@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Suggested-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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