On 07/09/15 10:52, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 07/09/15 07:46, Naoya Horiguchi wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 07, 2015 at 02:23:44AM +0000, Horiguchi Naoya(堀口 直也) wrote:
>>> On Mon, Sep 07, 2015 at 02:29:53AM +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>>>> On 20/08/15 09:26, Naoya Horiguchi wrote:
>>>>> Currently /proc/PID/smaps provides no usage info for vma(VM_HUGETLB), which
>>>>> is inconvenient when we want to know per-task or per-vma base hugetlb usage.
>>>>> To solve this, this patch adds a new line for hugetlb usage like below:
>>>>>
>>>>> Size: 20480 kB
>>>>> Rss: 0 kB
>>>>> Pss: 0 kB
>>>>> Shared_Clean: 0 kB
>>>>> Shared_Dirty: 0 kB
>>>>> Private_Clean: 0 kB
>>>>> Private_Dirty: 0 kB
>>>>> Referenced: 0 kB
>>>>> Anonymous: 0 kB
>>>>> AnonHugePages: 0 kB
>>>>> HugetlbPages: 18432 kB
>>>>> Swap: 0 kB
>>>>> KernelPageSize: 2048 kB
>>>>> MMUPageSize: 2048 kB
>>>>> Locked: 0 kB
>>>>> VmFlags: rd wr mr mw me de ht
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>> Acked-by: Joern Engel <joern@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>>> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>> ---
>>>>> v3 -> v4:
>>>>> - suspend Acked-by tag because v3->v4 change is not trivial
>>>>> - I stated in previous discussion that HugetlbPages line can contain page
>>>>> size info, but that's not necessary because we already have KernelPageSize
>>>>> info.
>>>>> - merged documentation update, where the current documentation doesn't mention
>>>>> AnonHugePages, so it's also added.
>>>>> ---
>>>>> Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 7 +++++--
>>>>> fs/proc/task_mmu.c | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>>> 2 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>>>>
>>>>> diff --git v4.2-rc4/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt v4.2-rc4_patched/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
>>>>> index 6f7fafde0884..22e40211ef64 100644
>>>>> --- v4.2-rc4/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
>>>>> +++ v4.2-rc4_patched/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
>>>>> @@ -423,6 +423,8 @@ Private_Clean: 0 kB
>>>>> Private_Dirty: 0 kB
>>>>> Referenced: 892 kB
>>>>> Anonymous: 0 kB
>>>>> +AnonHugePages: 0 kB
>>>>> +HugetlbPages: 0 kB
>>>>> Swap: 0 kB
>>>>> KernelPageSize: 4 kB
>>>>> MMUPageSize: 4 kB
>>>>> @@ -440,8 +442,9 @@ indicates the amount of memory currently marked as referenced or accessed.
>>>>> "Anonymous" shows the amount of memory that does not belong to any file. Even
>>>>> a mapping associated with a file may contain anonymous pages: when MAP_PRIVATE
>>>>> and a page is modified, the file page is replaced by a private anonymous copy.
>>>>> -"Swap" shows how much would-be-anonymous memory is also used, but out on
>>>>> -swap.
>>>>> +"AnonHugePages" shows the ammount of memory backed by transparent hugepage.
>>>>> +"HugetlbPages" shows the ammount of memory backed by hugetlbfs page.
>>>>> +"Swap" shows how much would-be-anonymous memory is also used, but out on swap.
>>>>
>>>> There is no distinction between "private" and "shared" in this "huge page" accounting right?
>>>
>>> Right for current version. And I think that private/shared distinction
>>> gives some help.
>>>
>>>> Would it be possible to account for the huge pages in the {Private,Shared}_{Clean,Dirty} fields?
>>>> Or otherwise split the huge page accounting into shared/private?
>>
>> Sorry, I didn't catch you properly.
>> I think that accounting for hugetlb pages should be done only with HugetlbPages
>> or any other new field for hugetlb, in order not to break the behavior of existing
>> fields.
>
> On a more general note I'd be inclined to just account
> for hugetlb pages in Rss and {Private,Shared}_Dirty
> and fix any tools that double count.
By the same argument I presume the existing THP "AnonHugePages" smaps field
is not accounted for in the {Private,Shared}_... fields?
I.E. AnonHugePages may also benefit from splitting to Private/Shared?
thanks,
Pádraig.
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