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authorDan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>2011-09-21 18:28:04 +0200
committerKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>2012-01-23 22:07:50 +0100
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mm: cleancache: report statistics via debugfs instead of sysfs.
[v9: akpm@linux-foundation.org: sysfs->debugfs; no longer need Doc/ABI file] Signed-off-by: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Konrad Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com> Acked-by: Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com> Cc: Rik Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-cleancache11
-rw-r--r--Documentation/vm/cleancache.txt4
2 files changed, 2 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-cleancache b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-cleancache
deleted file mode 100644
index 662ae646ea12..000000000000
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-cleancache
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-What: /sys/kernel/mm/cleancache/
-Date: April 2011
-Contact: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>
-Description:
- /sys/kernel/mm/cleancache/ contains a number of files which
- record a count of various cleancache operations
- (sum across all filesystems):
- succ_gets
- failed_gets
- puts
- flushes
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/cleancache.txt b/Documentation/vm/cleancache.txt
index e0a535677b7b..f726717ace6b 100644
--- a/Documentation/vm/cleancache.txt
+++ b/Documentation/vm/cleancache.txt
@@ -84,8 +84,8 @@ lock the page to ensure serial behavior.
CLEANCACHE PERFORMANCE METRICS
-Cleancache monitoring is done by sysfs files in the
-/sys/kernel/mm/cleancache directory. The effectiveness of cleancache
+If properly configured, monitoring of cleancache is done via debugfs in
+the /sys/kernel/debug/mm/cleancache directory. The effectiveness of cleancache
can be measured (across all filesystems) with:
succ_gets - number of gets that were successful