细说 linux 内存之cached

cached 项数据为 meminfo_proc_show 打印，

代码如下：

cached = global_page_state(NR_FILE_PAGES) -
total_swapcache_pages - i.bufferram; 

cached 属于文件页。 

那文件页是在什么时候增加的呢？

内核中有两处增加　文件页面数量：

int add_to_page_cache_locked(struct page *page, struct address_space *mapping,
pgoff_t offset, gfp_t gfp_mask)
{
int error;


VM_BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page));


error = mem_cgroup_cache_charge(page, current->mm,
gfp_mask & GFP_RECLAIM_MASK);
if (error)
goto out;


error = radix_tree_preload(gfp_mask & ~__GFP_HIGHMEM);
if (error == 0) {
page_cache_get(page);
page->mapping = mapping;
page->index = offset;


spin_lock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
error = radix_tree_insert(&mapping->page_tree, offset, page);
if (likely(!error)) {
mapping->nrpages++;
__inc_zone_page_state(page, NR_FILE_PAGES);
if (PageSwapBacked(page))
__inc_zone_page_state(page, NR_SHMEM);
spin_unlock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
} else {
page->mapping = NULL;
spin_unlock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
mem_cgroup_uncharge_cache_page(page);
page_cache_release(page);
}
radix_tree_preload_end();
} else
mem_cgroup_uncharge_cache_page(page);
out:
return error;
}

２.　__add_to_swap_cache

所以文件NR_FILE_PAGES的页面可以理解为　加入pagecache 的文件。