Re: [PATCH, RESEND] getrusage: fill ru_maxrss value

From: Oleg Nesterov
Date: Tue Dec 16 2008 - 10:23:26 EST


On 12/16, Jiri Pirko wrote:
>
> This patch makes ->ru_maxrss value in struct rusage filled accordingly to
> rss hiwater mark. This struct is filled as a parameter to
> getrusage syscall. ->ru_maxrss value is set to pages which might be correct
> as "time" application converts it to KBs.
>
> To make this happen we extend struct signal_struct by two fields. The
> first one is ->maxrss which we use to store rss hiwater of the task. The
> second one is ->cmaxrss which we use to store highest rss hiwater of all
> task childs. These values are used in k_getrusage() to actually fill
> ->ru_maxrss. k_getrusage() uses current rss hiwater value directly
> if mm struct exists.
>
> We clear the ->maxrss as a part of flush_old_exec() to be consistent
> because bprm_mm_init() does not copy ->hiwater_rss.

Imho the patch is fine, but

> @@ -1598,6 +1601,15 @@ static void k_getrusage(struct task_struct *p, int who, struct rusage *r)
> out:
> cputime_to_timeval(utime, &r->ru_utime);
> cputime_to_timeval(stime, &r->ru_stime);
> +
> + task_lock(p);
> + if (p->mm) {
> + unsigned long maxrss = get_mm_hiwater_rss(p->mm);
> +
> + if (r->ru_maxrss < maxrss)
> + r->ru_maxrss = maxrss;
> + }
> + task_unlock(p);

I think the code above should check "if (who != RUSAGE_CHILDREN) ?

Oleg.

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