On 08/05/2015 03:21 PM, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote:
On 05.08.2015 16:01, Vlastimil Babka wrote:From: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@xxxxxxxxxx> It's currently inconvenient to retrieve MM_ANONPAGES value from status and statm files and there is no way to separate MM_FILEPAGES and MM_SHMEMPAGES. Add VmAnon, VmFile and VmShm lines in /proc/<pid>/status to solve these issues. Signed-off-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx> --- Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 10 +++++++++- fs/proc/task_mmu.c | 13 +++++++++++-- 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index fcf67c7..fadd1b3 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -168,6 +168,9 @@ For example, to get the status information of a process, all you have to do is VmLck: 0 kB VmHWM: 476 kB VmRSS: 476 kB + VmAnon: 352 kB + VmFile: 120 kB + VmShm: 4 kB VmData: 156 kB VmStk: 88 kB VmExe: 68 kB @@ -229,7 +232,12 @@ Table 1-2: Contents of the status files (as of 4.1) VmSize total program size VmLck locked memory size VmHWM peak resident set size ("high water mark") - VmRSS size of memory portions + VmRSS size of memory portions. It contains the three + following parts (VmRSS = VmAnon + VmFile + VmShm) + VmAnon size of resident anonymous memory + VmFile size of resident file mappings + VmShm size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, + mapping of tmpfs and shared anonymous mappings)"Vm" is an acronym for Virtual Memory, but all these are not virtual. They are real pages. Let's leave VmRSS as is and invent better prefix for new fields: something like "Mem", "Pg", or no prefix at all.
No prefix would be IMHO confusing. Mem could work, but it's not exactly consistent with the rest. I think only VmPeak and VmSize talk about virtual memory. The rest of existing counters is about physical memory being mapped into that virtual memory or consumed by supporting it (PTE, PMD) or swapped out. I don't see any difference for the new counters here, they would just stand out oddly with some new prefix IMHO.
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