On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 02:18:29PM -0700, Saravanan D wrote: > From: Calvin Owens <calvinowens@xxxxxx> > > While the maximum size of each ramdisk is defined either > as a module parameter, or compile time default, it's impossible > to know how many pages have currently been allocated by each > ram%d device, since they're allocated when used and never freed. > > This patch creates a new directory at this location: > > » /sys/kernel/debug/ramdisk_pages/ > > ...which will contain a file named "ram%d" for each instantiated > ramdisk on the system. The file is read-only, and read() will > output the number of pages currently held by that ramdisk. > Justification : We lose track how much memory a ramdisk is using as pages once used are simply recycled but never freed. In instances where we exhaust the size of the ramdisk with a file that exceeds it, encounter ENOSPC and delete the file for mitigation; df would show decrease in used and increase in available blocks but the since we have touched all pages, the memory footprint of the ramdisk does not reflect the blocks used/available count ... [root@localhost ~]# mkfs.ext2 /dev/ram15 mke2fs 1.45.6 (20-Mar-2020) Creating filesystem with 4096 1k blocks and 1024 inodes [root@localhost ~]# mount /dev/ram15 /mnt/ram15/ [root@localhost ~]# cat /sys/kernel/debug/ramdisk_pages/ram15 58 [root@kerneltest008.06.prn3 ~]# df /dev/ram15 Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/ram15 3963 31 3728 1% /mnt/ram15 [root@kerneltest008.06.prn3 ~]# dd if=/dev/urandom of=/mnt/ram15/test2 bs=1M count=5 dd: error writing '/mnt/ram15/test2': No space left on device 4+0 records in 3+0 records out 4005888 bytes (4.0 MB, 3.8 MiB) copied, 0.0446614 s, 89.7 MB/s [root@kerneltest008.06.prn3 ~]# df /mnt/ram15/ Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/ram15 3963 3960 0 100% /mnt/ram15 [root@kerneltest008.06.prn3 ~]# cat /sys/kernel/debug/ramdisk_pages/ram15 1024 [root@kerneltest008.06.prn3 ~]# rm /mnt/ram15/test2 rm: remove regular file '/mnt/ram15/test2'? y [root@kerneltest008.06.prn3 /var]# df /dev/ram15 Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/ram15 3963 31 3728 1% /mnt/ram15 # Acutal memory footprint [root@kerneltest008.06.prn3 /var]# cat /sys/kernel/debug/ramdisk_pages/ram15 1024 ... This debugfs counter will always reveal the accurate number of permanently allocated pages to the ramdisk.
