Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Tue, 8 Aug 2023 10:08:58 -0700 Stefan Roesch <shr@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> With madvise and prctl KSM can be enabled for different VMA's. Once it >> is enabled we can query how effective KSM is overall. However we cannot >> easily query if an individual VMA benefits from KSM. >> >> This commit adds a KSM section to the /prod/<pid>/smaps file. It reports >> how many of the pages are KSM pages. >> >> Here is a typical output: >> >> 7f420a000000-7f421a000000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 >> Size: 262144 kB >> KernelPageSize: 4 kB >> MMUPageSize: 4 kB >> Rss: 51212 kB >> Pss: 8276 kB >> Shared_Clean: 172 kB >> Shared_Dirty: 42996 kB >> Private_Clean: 196 kB >> Private_Dirty: 7848 kB >> Referenced: 15388 kB >> Anonymous: 51212 kB >> KSM: 41376 kB >> LazyFree: 0 kB >> AnonHugePages: 0 kB >> ShmemPmdMapped: 0 kB >> FilePmdMapped: 0 kB >> Shared_Hugetlb: 0 kB >> Private_Hugetlb: 0 kB >> Swap: 202016 kB >> SwapPss: 3882 kB >> Locked: 0 kB >> THPeligible: 0 >> ProtectionKey: 0 >> ksm_state: 0 >> ksm_skip_base: 0 >> ksm_skip_count: 0 >> VmFlags: rd wr mr mw me nr mg anon >> >> This information also helps with the following workflow: >> - First enable KSM for all the VMA's of a process with prctl. >> - Then analyze with the above smaps report which VMA's benefit the most >> - Change the application (if possible) to add the corresponding madvise >> calls for the VMA's that benefit the most > > smaps is documented in Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst, please. > (And it looks a bit out of date). > I'll add the documentation of the knob. > Did you consider adding this info to smaps_rollup as well? I'll have a look.
