On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 03:02:08PM -0400, Joel Savitz wrote:
> In the mainline kernel, there is no quick mechanism to get the virtual
> memory size of the current process from userspace.
>
> Despite the current state of affairs, this information is available to the
> user through several means, one being a linear search of the entire address
> space. This is an inefficient use of cpu cycles.
>
> A component of the libhugetlb kernel test does exactly this, and as
> systems' address spaces increase beyond 32-bits, this method becomes
> exceedingly tedious.
>
> For example, on a ppc64le system with a 47-bit address space, the linear
> search causes the test to hang for some unknown amount of time. I
> couldn't give you an exact number because I just ran it for about 10-20
> minutes and went to go do something else, probably to get coffee or
> something, and when I came back, I just killed the test and patched it
> to use this new mechanism. I re-ran my new version of the test using a
> kernel with this patch, and of course it passed through the previously
> bottlenecking codepath nearly instantaneously.
>
> This patched enabled me to upgrade an O(n) codepath to O(1) in an
> architecture-independent manner.
>
> Signed-off-by: Joel Savitz <jsavitz@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 2 ++
> fs/proc/task_mmu.c | 5 ++++-
> 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
> index 66cad5c86171..1c6a912e3975 100644
> --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
> @@ -187,6 +187,7 @@ read the file /proc/PID/status:
> VmLib: 1412 kB
> VmPTE: 20 kb
> VmSwap: 0 kB
> + VmTaskSize: 137438953468 kB
> HugetlbPages: 0 kB
> CoreDumping: 0
> THP_enabled: 1
> @@ -263,6 +264,7 @@ Table 1-2: Contents of the status files (as of 4.19)
> VmPTE size of page table entries
> VmSwap amount of swap used by anonymous private data
> (shmem swap usage is not included)
> + VmTaskSize size of entire virtual address space of a process
> HugetlbPages size of hugetlb memory portions
> CoreDumping process's memory is currently being dumped
> (killing the process may lead to a corrupted core)
> diff --git a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c b/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
> index 95ca1fe7283c..0ddd51479f90 100644
> --- a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
> +++ b/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
> @@ -74,7 +74,10 @@ void task_mem(struct seq_file *m, struct mm_struct *mm)
> seq_put_decimal_ull_width(m,
> " kB\nVmPTE:\t", mm_pgtables_bytes(mm) >> 10, 8);
> SEQ_PUT_DEC(" kB\nVmSwap:\t", swap);
> - seq_puts(m, " kB\n");
> + SEQ_PUT_DEC(" kB\nVmSwap:\t", swap);
> + seq_put_decimal_ull_width(m,
> + " kB\nVmTaskSize:\t", TASK_SIZE >> 10, 8);
> + seq_puts(m, " kB\n");
> hugetlb_report_usage(m, mm);
> }
> #undef SEQ_PUT_DEC
> --
> 2.18.1
>
Acked-by: Rafael Aquini <aquini@xxxxxxxxxx>
