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| author | Dennis Zhou (Facebook) <dennisszhou@gmail.com> | 2018-08-21 21:53:58 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2018-08-22 10:52:45 -0700 |
| commit | 7e8a6304d5419cbf056a59de92939e5eef039c57 (patch) | |
| tree | 6fa617d1ee50064ee3b93f1f95740d54ed883f18 /Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | |
| parent | 3d8b38eb81cac81395f6a823f6bf401b327268e6 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-7e8a6304d5419cbf056a59de92939e5eef039c57.tar.gz lwn-7e8a6304d5419cbf056a59de92939e5eef039c57.zip | |
/proc/meminfo: add percpu populated pages count
Currently, percpu memory only exposes allocation and utilization
information via debugfs. This more or less is only really useful for
understanding the fragmentation and allocation information at a per-chunk
level with a few global counters. This is also gated behind a config.
BPF and cgroup, for example, have seen an increase in use causing
increased use of percpu memory. Let's make it easier for someone to
identify how much memory is being used.
This patch adds the "Percpu" stat to meminfo to more easily look up how
much percpu memory is in use. This number includes the cost for all
allocated backing pages and not just insight at the per a unit, per chunk
level. Metadata is excluded. I think excluding metadata is fair because
the backing memory scales with the numbere of cpus and can quickly
outweigh the metadata. It also makes this calculation light.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180807184723.74919-1-dennisszhou@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou <dennisszhou@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index 1605acbb23b6..22b4b00dee31 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -870,6 +870,7 @@ Committed_AS: 100056 kB VmallocTotal: 112216 kB VmallocUsed: 428 kB VmallocChunk: 111088 kB +Percpu: 62080 kB HardwareCorrupted: 0 kB AnonHugePages: 49152 kB ShmemHugePages: 0 kB @@ -962,6 +963,8 @@ Committed_AS: The amount of memory presently allocated on the system. VmallocTotal: total size of vmalloc memory area VmallocUsed: amount of vmalloc area which is used VmallocChunk: largest contiguous block of vmalloc area which is free + Percpu: Memory allocated to the percpu allocator used to back percpu + allocations. This stat excludes the cost of metadata. .............................................................................. |