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author | Luigi Semenzato <semenzato@chromium.org> | 2019-07-11 21:00:10 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2019-07-12 11:05:47 -0700 |
commit | ee2ad71b0756e995fa4f6d922463e9bccd71b198 (patch) | |
tree | 0ca5415368b95cbe6890d915a98fc83c9e1eee3e /Documentation | |
parent | 1e426fe28261b03f297992e89da3320b42816f4e (diff) |
mm: smaps: split PSS into components
Report separate components (anon, file, and shmem) for PSS in
smaps_rollup.
This helps understand and tune the memory manager behavior in consumer
devices, particularly mobile devices. Many of them (e.g. chromebooks and
Android-based devices) use zram for anon memory, and perform disk reads
for discarded file pages. The difference in latency is large (e.g.
reading a single page from SSD is 30 times slower than decompressing a
zram page on one popular device), thus it is useful to know how much of
the PSS is anon vs. file.
All the information is already present in /proc/pid/smaps, but much more
expensive to obtain because of the large size of that procfs entry.
This patch also removes a small code duplication in smaps_account, which
would have gotten worse otherwise.
Also updated Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt (the smaps section was a
bit stale, and I added a smaps_rollup section) and
Documentation/ABI/testing/procfs-smaps_rollup.
[semenzato@chromium.org: v5]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190626234333.44608-1-semenzato@chromium.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190626180429.174569-1-semenzato@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Luigi Semenzato <semenzato@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@chromium.org>
Cc: Sonny Rao <sonnyrao@chromium.org>
Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@chromium.org>
Cc: Brian Geffon <bgeffon@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/testing/procfs-smaps_rollup | 14 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 41 |
2 files changed, 43 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/procfs-smaps_rollup b/Documentation/ABI/testing/procfs-smaps_rollup index 0a54ed0d63c9..274df44d8b1b 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/procfs-smaps_rollup +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/procfs-smaps_rollup @@ -3,18 +3,28 @@ Date: August 2017 Contact: Daniel Colascione <dancol@google.com> Description: This file provides pre-summed memory information for a - process. The format is identical to /proc/pid/smaps, + process. The format is almost identical to /proc/pid/smaps, except instead of an entry for each VMA in a process, smaps_rollup has a single entry (tagged "[rollup]") for which each field is the sum of the corresponding fields from all the maps in /proc/pid/smaps. - For more details, see the procfs man page. + Additionally, the fields Pss_Anon, Pss_File and Pss_Shmem + are not present in /proc/pid/smaps. These fields represent + the sum of the Pss field of each type (anon, file, shmem). + For more details, see Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt + and the procfs man page. Typical output looks like this: 00100000-ff709000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0 [rollup] + Size: 1192 kB + KernelPageSize: 4 kB + MMUPageSize: 4 kB Rss: 884 kB Pss: 385 kB + Pss_Anon: 301 kB + Pss_File: 80 kB + Pss_Shmem: 4 kB Shared_Clean: 696 kB Shared_Dirty: 0 kB Private_Clean: 120 kB diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index a226061fa109..d750b6926899 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -154,9 +154,11 @@ Table 1-1: Process specific entries in /proc symbol the task is blocked in - or "0" if not blocked. pagemap Page table stack Report full stack trace, enable via CONFIG_STACKTRACE - smaps an extension based on maps, showing the memory consumption of + smaps An extension based on maps, showing the memory consumption of each mapping and flags associated with it - numa_maps an extension based on maps, showing the memory locality and + smaps_rollup Accumulated smaps stats for all mappings of the process. This + can be derived from smaps, but is faster and more convenient + numa_maps An extension based on maps, showing the memory locality and binding policy as well as mem usage (in pages) of each mapping. .............................................................................. @@ -366,7 +368,7 @@ Table 1-4: Contents of the stat files (as of 2.6.30-rc7) exit_code the thread's exit_code in the form reported by the waitpid system call .............................................................................. -The /proc/PID/maps file containing the currently mapped memory regions and +The /proc/PID/maps file contains the currently mapped memory regions and their access permissions. The format is: @@ -417,11 +419,14 @@ is not associated with a file: or if empty, the mapping is anonymous. The /proc/PID/smaps is an extension based on maps, showing the memory -consumption for each of the process's mappings. For each of mappings there -is a series of lines such as the following: +consumption for each of the process's mappings. For each mapping (aka Virtual +Memory Area, or VMA) there is a series of lines such as the following: 08048000-080bc000 r-xp 00000000 03:02 13130 /bin/bash + Size: 1084 kB +KernelPageSize: 4 kB +MMUPageSize: 4 kB Rss: 892 kB Pss: 374 kB Shared_Clean: 892 kB @@ -443,11 +448,14 @@ Locked: 0 kB THPeligible: 0 VmFlags: rd ex mr mw me dw -the first of these lines shows the same information as is displayed for the -mapping in /proc/PID/maps. The remaining lines show the size of the mapping -(size), the amount of the mapping that is currently resident in RAM (RSS), the -process' proportional share of this mapping (PSS), the number of clean and -dirty private pages in the mapping. +The first of these lines shows the same information as is displayed for the +mapping in /proc/PID/maps. Following lines show the size of the mapping +(size); the size of each page allocated when backing a VMA (KernelPageSize), +which is usually the same as the size in the page table entries; the page size +used by the MMU when backing a VMA (in most cases, the same as KernelPageSize); +the amount of the mapping that is currently resident in RAM (RSS); the +process' proportional share of this mapping (PSS); and the number of clean and +dirty shared and private pages in the mapping. The "proportional set size" (PSS) of a process is the count of pages it has in memory, where each page is divided by the number of processes sharing it. @@ -532,6 +540,19 @@ guarantees: 2) If there is something at a given vaddr during the entirety of the life of the smaps/maps walk, there will be some output for it. +The /proc/PID/smaps_rollup file includes the same fields as /proc/PID/smaps, +but their values are the sums of the corresponding values for all mappings of +the process. Additionally, it contains these fields: + +Pss_Anon +Pss_File +Pss_Shmem + +They represent the proportional shares of anonymous, file, and shmem pages, as +described for smaps above. These fields are omitted in smaps since each +mapping identifies the type (anon, file, or shmem) of all pages it contains. +Thus all information in smaps_rollup can be derived from smaps, but at a +significantly higher cost. The /proc/PID/clear_refs is used to reset the PG_Referenced and ACCESSED/YOUNG bits on both physical and virtual pages associated with a process, and the |