Add a document describing the shrinker debugfs interface. Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@xxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/admin-guide/mm/index.rst | 1 + .../admin-guide/mm/shrinker_debugfs.rst | 100 ++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 101 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/shrinker_debugfs.rst diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/index.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/index.rst index c21b5823f126..1bd11118dfb1 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/index.rst @@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ the Linux memory management. numa_memory_policy numaperf pagemap + shrinker_debugfs soft-dirty swap_numa transhuge diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/shrinker_debugfs.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/shrinker_debugfs.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..2033d696aa59 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/shrinker_debugfs.rst @@ -0,0 +1,100 @@ +.. _shrinker_debugfs: + +========================== +Shrinker Debugfs Interface +========================== + +Shrinker debugfs interface provides a visibility into the kernel memory +shrinkers subsystem and allows to get information about individual shrinkers. + +For each shrinker registered in the system a directory in **<debugfs>/shrinker/** +is created. The directory's name is composed from the shrinker's name and an +unique id: e.g. *kfree_rcu-0* or *sb-xfs:vda1-36*. + +Each shrinker directory contains the **count** file, which allows to trigger +the *count_objects()* callback for each memcg and numa node (if applicable). + +Usage: +------ + +1. *List registered shrinkers* + + :: + + $ cd /sys/kernel/debug/shrinker/ + $ ls + dqcache-16 sb-hugetlbfs-17 sb-rootfs-2 sb-tmpfs-49 + kfree_rcu-0 sb-hugetlbfs-33 sb-securityfs-6 sb-tracefs-13 + sb-aio-20 sb-iomem-12 sb-selinuxfs-22 sb-xfs:vda1-36 + sb-anon_inodefs-15 sb-mqueue-21 sb-sockfs-8 sb-zsmalloc-19 + sb-bdev-3 sb-nsfs-4 sb-sysfs-26 shadow-18 + sb-bpf-32 sb-pipefs-14 sb-tmpfs-1 thp_deferred_split-10 + sb-btrfs:vda2-24 sb-proc-25 sb-tmpfs-27 thp_zero-9 + sb-cgroup2-30 sb-proc-39 sb-tmpfs-29 xfs_buf-vda1-37 + sb-configfs-23 sb-proc-41 sb-tmpfs-35 xfs_inodegc-vda1-38 + sb-dax-11 sb-proc-45 sb-tmpfs-40 zspool-zram0-34 + sb-debugfs-7 sb-proc-46 sb-tmpfs-42 + sb-devpts-28 sb-proc-47 sb-tmpfs-43 + sb-devtmpfs-5 sb-pstore-31 sb-tmpfs-44 + +2. *Get information about a specific shrinker* + + :: + + $ cd sb-btrfs\:vda2-24/ + $ ls + count + +3. *Count objects* + + Each line in the output has the following format:: + + <cgroup inode id> <nr of objects on node 0> <nr of objects on node 1> ... + <cgroup inode id> <nr of objects on node 0> <nr of objects on node 1> ... + ... + + If there are no objects on all numa nodes, a line is omitted. If there + are no objects at all, the output might be empty. + :: + + $ cat count + 1 224 2 + 21 98 0 + 55 818 10 + 2367 2 0 + 2401 30 0 + 225 13 0 + 599 35 0 + 939 124 0 + 1041 3 0 + 1075 1 0 + 1109 1 0 + 1279 60 0 + 1313 7 0 + 1347 39 0 + 1381 3 0 + 1449 14 0 + 1483 63 0 + 1517 53 0 + 1551 6 0 + 1585 1 0 + 1619 6 0 + 1653 40 0 + 1687 11 0 + 1721 8 0 + 1755 4 0 + 1789 52 0 + 1823 888 0 + 1857 1 0 + 1925 2 0 + 1959 32 0 + 2027 22 0 + 2061 9 0 + 2469 799 0 + 2537 861 0 + 2639 1 0 + 2707 70 0 + 2775 4 0 + 2877 84 0 + 293 1 0 + 735 8 0 -- 2.35.3