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| author | Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> | 2011-10-31 17:07:30 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2011-10-31 17:30:46 -0700 |
| commit | bc3e53f682d93df677dbd5006a404722b3adfe18 (patch) | |
| tree | f386c29f13626e2b7d98d5a52525a78a9b59e447 /fs | |
| parent | f11c0ca501af89fc07b0d9f17531ba3b68a4ef39 (diff) | |
mm: distinguish between mlocked and pinned pages
Some kernel components pin user space memory (infiniband and perf) (by
increasing the page count) and account that memory as "mlocked".
The difference between mlocking and pinning is:
A. mlocked pages are marked with PG_mlocked and are exempt from
swapping. Page migration may move them around though.
They are kept on a special LRU list.
B. Pinned pages cannot be moved because something needs to
directly access physical memory. They may not be on any
LRU list.
I recently saw an mlockalled process where mm->locked_vm became
bigger than the virtual size of the process (!) because some
memory was accounted for twice:
Once when the page was mlocked and once when the Infiniband
layer increased the refcount because it needt to pin the RDMA
memory.
This patch introduces a separate counter for pinned pages and
accounts them seperately.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Mike Marciniszyn <infinipath@qlogic.com>
Cc: Roland Dreier <roland@kernel.org>
Cc: Sean Hefty <sean.hefty@intel.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/proc/task_mmu.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c b/fs/proc/task_mmu.c index c7d4ee663f14..e418c5abdb0e 100644 --- a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c +++ b/fs/proc/task_mmu.c @@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ void task_mem(struct seq_file *m, struct mm_struct *mm) "VmPeak:\t%8lu kB\n" "VmSize:\t%8lu kB\n" "VmLck:\t%8lu kB\n" + "VmPin:\t%8lu kB\n" "VmHWM:\t%8lu kB\n" "VmRSS:\t%8lu kB\n" "VmData:\t%8lu kB\n" @@ -55,6 +56,7 @@ void task_mem(struct seq_file *m, struct mm_struct *mm) hiwater_vm << (PAGE_SHIFT-10), (total_vm - mm->reserved_vm) << (PAGE_SHIFT-10), mm->locked_vm << (PAGE_SHIFT-10), + mm->pinned_vm << (PAGE_SHIFT-10), hiwater_rss << (PAGE_SHIFT-10), total_rss << (PAGE_SHIFT-10), data << (PAGE_SHIFT-10), |