Re: [External] Re: [PATCH] mm: proc: add Sock to /proc/meminfo

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CCed: Paolo Bonzini

On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 1:53 PM Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > And there might be others, and adding everything to /proc/meminfo is not
> > feasible. I have once proposed adding a counter called "Unaccounted:" which
> > would at least tell the user easily if a significant portion is occupied by
> > memory not explained by the other meminfo counters, and look for trends
> > (increase = potential memory leak?). For specific prominent consumers not
> > covered by meminfo but that have some kind of internal counters, we could
> > document where to look, such as /proc/net/sockstat or maybe create some
> > /proc/ or /sys directory with file per consumer so that it's still easy to
> > check, but without the overhead of global counters and bloated
> > /proc/meminfo?
>
> What have in my mind is to support simple general sysfs infra from MM for
> driver/subysstems rather than creating each own memory stat. The API
> could support flexible accounting like just global memory consumption and/or
> consmption by key(e.g,. pid or each own special) for the detail.
>
> So, they are all shown under /sys/kernel/mm/misc/ with detail as well as
> /proc/meminfo with simple line for global.

This reminds me of statsfs [1]. I am wondering if this can be another
useful use-case for statsfs.

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/5/26/332




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