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author | Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com> | 2018-01-31 16:16:22 -0800 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2018-01-31 17:18:36 -0800 |
commit | fcb2b0c577f145c7616843c9d4dcb4f9e5d88e29 (patch) | |
tree | e5e0adca3b30b9d2eac5cec139a9b588844766c8 /Documentation/vm | |
parent | 9852a7212324fd25f896932f4f4607ce47b0a22f (diff) |
mm: show total hugetlb memory consumption in /proc/meminfo
Currently we display some hugepage statistics (total, free, etc) in
/proc/meminfo, but only for default hugepage size (e.g. 2Mb).
If hugepages of different sizes are used (like 2Mb and 1Gb on x86-64),
/proc/meminfo output can be confusing, as non-default sized hugepages
are not reflected at all, and there are no signs that they are existing
and consuming system memory.
To solve this problem, let's display the total amount of memory,
consumed by hugetlb pages of all sized (both free and used). Let's call
it "Hugetlb", and display size in kB to match generic /proc/meminfo
style.
For example, (1024 2Mb pages and 2 1Gb pages are pre-allocated):
$ cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal: 8168984 kB
MemFree: 3789276 kB
<...>
CmaFree: 0 kB
HugePages_Total: 1024
HugePages_Free: 1024
HugePages_Rsvd: 0
HugePages_Surp: 0
Hugepagesize: 2048 kB
Hugetlb: 4194304 kB
DirectMap4k: 32632 kB
DirectMap2M: 4161536 kB
DirectMap1G: 6291456 kB
Also, this patch updates corresponding docs to reflect Hugetlb entry
meaning and difference between Hugetlb and HugePages_Total * Hugepagesize.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171115231409.12131-1-guro@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/vm')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt | 27 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt b/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt index 59cbc803aad6..faf077d50d42 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt +++ b/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt @@ -20,19 +20,20 @@ options. The /proc/meminfo file provides information about the total number of persistent hugetlb pages in the kernel's huge page pool. It also displays -information about the number of free, reserved and surplus huge pages and the -default huge page size. The huge page size is needed for generating the -proper alignment and size of the arguments to system calls that map huge page -regions. +default huge page size and information about the number of free, reserved +and surplus huge pages in the pool of huge pages of default size. +The huge page size is needed for generating the proper alignment and +size of the arguments to system calls that map huge page regions. The output of "cat /proc/meminfo" will include lines like: ..... -HugePages_Total: vvv -HugePages_Free: www -HugePages_Rsvd: xxx -HugePages_Surp: yyy -Hugepagesize: zzz kB +HugePages_Total: uuu +HugePages_Free: vvv +HugePages_Rsvd: www +HugePages_Surp: xxx +Hugepagesize: yyy kB +Hugetlb: zzz kB where: HugePages_Total is the size of the pool of huge pages. @@ -47,6 +48,14 @@ HugePages_Surp is short for "surplus," and is the number of huge pages in the pool above the value in /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages. The maximum number of surplus huge pages is controlled by /proc/sys/vm/nr_overcommit_hugepages. +Hugepagesize is the default hugepage size (in Kb). +Hugetlb is the total amount of memory (in kB), consumed by huge + pages of all sizes. + If huge pages of different sizes are in use, this number + will exceed HugePages_Total * Hugepagesize. To get more + detailed information, please, refer to + /sys/kernel/mm/hugepages (described below). + /proc/filesystems should also show a filesystem of type "hugetlbfs" configured in the kernel. |