linux-toradex.git/fs/proc/page.c, branch v4.9.96

mm: rename _count, field of the struct page, to _refcount

2016-05-20T02:12:14+00:00

Many developers already know that field for reference count of the
struct page is _count and atomic type.  They would try to handle it
directly and this could break the purpose of page reference count
tracepoint.  To prevent direct _count modification, this patch rename it
to _refcount and add warning message on the code.  After that, developer
who need to handle reference count will find that field should not be
accessed directly.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comments, per Vlastimil]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt too]
[sfr@canb.auug.org.au: sync ethernet driver changes]
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim 
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell 
Cc: Vlastimil Babka 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Johannes Berg 
Cc: "David S. Miller" 
Cc: Sunil Goutham 
Cc: Chris Metcalf 
Cc: Manish Chopra 
Cc: Yuval Mintz 
Cc: Tariq Toukan 
Cc: Saeed Mahameed 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

/proc/kpageflags: return KPF_SLAB for slab tail pages

2016-03-17T22:09:34+00:00

Currently /proc/kpageflags returns just KPF_COMPOUND_TAIL for slab tail
pages, which is inconvenient when grasping how slab pages are
distributed (userspace always needs to check which kind of tail pages by
itself).  This patch sets KPF_SLAB for such pages.

With this patch:

  $ grep Slab /proc/meminfo ; tools/vm/page-types -b slab
  Slab:              64880 kB
               flags      page-count       MB  symbolic-flags                     long-symbolic-flags
  0x0000000000000080           16220       63  _______S__________________________________ slab
               total           16220       63

16220 pages equals to 64880 kB, so returned result is consistent with the
global counter.

Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi 
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Davydov 
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

/proc/kpageflags: return KPF_BUDDY for "tail" buddy pages

2016-03-17T22:09:34+00:00

Currently /proc/kpageflags returns nothing for "tail" buddy pages, which
is inconvenient when grasping how free pages are distributed.  This
patch sets KPF_BUDDY for such pages.

With this patch:

  $ grep MemFree /proc/meminfo ; tools/vm/page-types -b buddy
  MemFree:         3134992 kB
               flags      page-count       MB  symbolic-flags                     long-symbolic-flags
  0x0000000000000400          779272     3044  __________B_______________________________ buddy
  0x0000000000000c00            4385       17  __________BM______________________________ buddy,mmap
               total          783657     3061

783657 pages is 3134628 kB (roughly consistent with the global counter,)
so it's OK.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: update comment, per Naoya]
Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi 
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Davydov >
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov 
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: differentiate page_mapped() from page_mapcount() for compound pages

2016-01-16T01:56:32+00:00

Let's define page_mapped() to be true for compound pages if any
sub-pages of the compound page is mapped (with PMD or PTE).

On other hand page_mapcount() return mapcount for this particular small
page.

This will make cases like page_get_anon_vma() behave correctly once we
allow huge pages to be mapped with PTE.

Most users outside core-mm should use page_mapcount() instead of
page_mapped().

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Tested-by: Sasha Levin 
Tested-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V 
Acked-by: Jerome Marchand 
Cc: Vlastimil Babka 
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Rik van Riel 
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi 
Cc: Steve Capper 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

proc: add cond_resched to /proc/kpage* read/write loop

2015-09-10T20:29:01+00:00

Reading/writing a /proc/kpage* file may take long on machines with a lot
of RAM installed.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov 
Suggested-by: Andres Lagar-Cavilla 
Reviewed-by: Andres Lagar-Cavilla 
Cc: Minchan Kim 
Cc: Raghavendra K T 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Greg Thelen 
Cc: Michel Lespinasse 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov 
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov 
Cc: Jonathan Corbet 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

proc: export idle flag via kpageflags

2015-09-10T20:29:01+00:00

As noted by Minchan, a benefit of reading idle flag from /proc/kpageflags
is that one can easily filter dirty and/or unevictable pages while
estimating the size of unused memory.

Note that idle flag read from /proc/kpageflags may be stale in case the
page was accessed via a PTE, because it would be too costly to iterate
over all page mappings on each /proc/kpageflags read to provide an
up-to-date value.  To make sure the flag is up-to-date one has to read
/sys/kernel/mm/page_idle/bitmap first.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov 
Reviewed-by: Andres Lagar-Cavilla 
Cc: Minchan Kim 
Cc: Raghavendra K T 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Greg Thelen 
Cc: Michel Lespinasse 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov 
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov 
Cc: Jonathan Corbet 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: introduce idle page tracking

2015-09-10T20:29:01+00:00

Knowing the portion of memory that is not used by a certain application or
memory cgroup (idle memory) can be useful for partitioning the system
efficiently, e.g.  by setting memory cgroup limits appropriately.
Currently, the only means to estimate the amount of idle memory provided
by the kernel is /proc/PID/{clear_refs,smaps}: the user can clear the
access bit for all pages mapped to a particular process by writing 1 to
clear_refs, wait for some time, and then count smaps:Referenced.  However,
this method has two serious shortcomings:

 - it does not count unmapped file pages
 - it affects the reclaimer logic

To overcome these drawbacks, this patch introduces two new page flags,
Idle and Young, and a new sysfs file, /sys/kernel/mm/page_idle/bitmap.
A page's Idle flag can only be set from userspace by setting bit in
/sys/kernel/mm/page_idle/bitmap at the offset corresponding to the page,
and it is cleared whenever the page is accessed either through page tables
(it is cleared in page_referenced() in this case) or using the read(2)
system call (mark_page_accessed()). Thus by setting the Idle flag for
pages of a particular workload, which can be found e.g.  by reading
/proc/PID/pagemap, waiting for some time to let the workload access its
working set, and then reading the bitmap file, one can estimate the amount
of pages that are not used by the workload.

The Young page flag is used to avoid interference with the memory
reclaimer.  A page's Young flag is set whenever the Access bit of a page
table entry pointing to the page is cleared by writing to the bitmap file.
If page_referenced() is called on a Young page, it will add 1 to its
return value, therefore concealing the fact that the Access bit was
cleared.

Note, since there is no room for extra page flags on 32 bit, this feature
uses extended page flags when compiled on 32 bit.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: kpageidle requires an MMU]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: decouple from page-flags rework]
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov 
Reviewed-by: Andres Lagar-Cavilla 
Cc: Minchan Kim 
Cc: Raghavendra K T 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Greg Thelen 
Cc: Michel Lespinasse 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov 
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov 
Cc: Jonathan Corbet 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

proc: add kpagecgroup file

2015-09-10T20:29:01+00:00

/proc/kpagecgroup contains a 64-bit inode number of the memory cgroup each
page is charged to, indexed by PFN.  Having this information is useful for
estimating a cgroup working set size.

The file is present if CONFIG_PROC_PAGE_MONITOR && CONFIG_MEMCG.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov 
Reviewed-by: Andres Lagar-Cavilla 
Cc: Minchan Kim 
Cc: Raghavendra K T 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Greg Thelen 
Cc: Michel Lespinasse 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov 
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov 
Cc: Jonathan Corbet 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm:add KPF_ZERO_PAGE flag for /proc/kpageflags

2015-02-12T01:06:00+00:00

Add KPF_ZERO_PAGE flag for zero_page, so that userspace processes can
detect zero_page in /proc/kpageflags, and then do memory analysis more
accurately.

Signed-off-by: Yalin Wang 
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov 
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/balloon_compaction: add vmstat counters and kpageflags bit

2014-10-10T02:26:01+00:00

Always mark pages with PageBalloon even if balloon compaction is disabled
and expose this mark in /proc/kpageflags as KPF_BALLOON.

Also this patch adds three counters into /proc/vmstat: "balloon_inflate",
"balloon_deflate" and "balloon_migrate".  They accumulate balloon
activity.  Current size of balloon is (balloon_inflate - balloon_deflate)
pages.

All generic balloon code now gathered under option CONFIG_MEMORY_BALLOON.
It should be selected by ballooning driver which wants use this feature.
Currently virtio-balloon is the only user.

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov 
Cc: Rafael Aquini 
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds