On Sat, 26 Feb 2011 22:56:31 +0800
Nai Xia <nai.xia@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> ksm_pages_sharing is updated by ksmd periodically. In some cases, it cannot
> reflect the actual savings and makes the benchmarks on volatile VMAs very
> inaccurate.
>
> This patch add a vm_stat entry and let the /proc/meminfo show information
> about how much virutal address pte is being mapped to ksm pages. With default
> ksm paramters (pages_to_scan==100 && sleep_millisecs==20), this can result in
> 50% more accurate averaged savings result for the following test program.
> Bigger sleep_millisecs values will increase this deviation.
>
> ...
>
> --- a/fs/proc/meminfo.c
> +++ b/fs/proc/meminfo.c
> @@ -87,6 +87,9 @@ static int meminfo_proc_show(struct seq_file *m, void *v)
> "SUnreclaim: %8lu kB\n"
> "KernelStack: %8lu kB\n"
> "PageTables: %8lu kB\n"
> +#ifdef CONFIG_KSM
> + "KsmSharing: %8lu kB\n"
> +#endif
> #ifdef CONFIG_QUICKLIST
> "Quicklists: %8lu kB\n"
> #endif
>
> ...
>
> @@ -904,6 +905,10 @@ static int try_to_merge_one_page(struct vm_area_struct
> *vma,
> */
> set_page_stable_node(page, NULL);
> mark_page_accessed(page);
> + if (mapcount)
> + add_zone_page_state(page_zone(page),
> + NR_KSM_PAGES_SHARING,
> + mapcount);
> err = 0;
> } else if (pages_identical(page, kpage))
> err = replace_page(vma, page, kpage, orig_pte);
This patch obviously wasn't tested with CONFIG_KSM=n, which was a
pretty basic patch-testing failure :(
I fixed up my tree with the below, but really the amount of ifdeffing
is unacceptable - please find a cleaner way to fix up this patch.
--- a/mm/ksm.c~ksm-add-vm_stat-and-meminfo-entry-to-reflect-pte-mapping-to-ksm-pages-fix
+++ a/mm/ksm.c
@@ -883,7 +883,6 @@ static int try_to_merge_one_page(struct
*/
if (write_protect_page(vma, page, &orig_pte) == 0) {
if (!kpage) {
- long mapcount = page_mapcount(page);
/*
* While we hold page lock, upgrade page from
* PageAnon+anon_vma to PageKsm+NULL stable_node:
@@ -891,10 +890,12 @@ static int try_to_merge_one_page(struct
*/
set_page_stable_node(page, NULL);
mark_page_accessed(page);
- if (mapcount)
+#ifdef CONFIG_KSM
+ if (page_mapcount(page))
add_zone_page_state(page_zone(page),
NR_KSM_PAGES_SHARING,
mapcount);
+#endif
err = 0;
} else if (pages_identical(page, kpage))
err = replace_page(vma, page, kpage, orig_pte);
--- a/mm/memory.c~ksm-add-vm_stat-and-meminfo-entry-to-reflect-pte-mapping-to-ksm-pages-fix
+++ a/mm/memory.c
@@ -719,8 +719,10 @@ copy_one_pte(struct mm_struct *dst_mm, s
rss[MM_ANONPAGES]++;
else
rss[MM_FILEPAGES]++;
+#ifdef CONFIG_KSM
if (PageKsm(page)) /* follows page_dup_rmap() */
inc_zone_page_state(page, NR_KSM_PAGES_SHARING);
+#endif
}
out_set_pte:
--- a/mm/rmap.c~ksm-add-vm_stat-and-meminfo-entry-to-reflect-pte-mapping-to-ksm-pages-fix
+++ a/mm/rmap.c
@@ -893,11 +893,12 @@ void do_page_add_anon_rmap(struct page *
__inc_zone_page_state(page,
NR_ANON_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGES);
}
+#ifdef CONFIG_KSM
if (unlikely(PageKsm(page))) {
__inc_zone_page_state(page, NR_KSM_PAGES_SHARING);
return;
}
-
+#endif
VM_BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page));
VM_BUG_ON(address < vma->vm_start || address >= vma->vm_end);
if (first)
@@ -955,9 +956,10 @@ void page_add_file_rmap(struct page *pag
*/
void page_remove_rmap(struct page *page)
{
+#ifdef CONFIG_KSM
if (PageKsm(page))
__dec_zone_page_state(page, NR_KSM_PAGES_SHARING);
-
+#endif
/* page still mapped by someone else? */
if (!atomic_add_negative(-1, &page->_mapcount))
return;
_
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