Re: [PATCH v5 1/4] mm: add NR_SECONDARY_PAGETABLE to count secondary page table uses.

From: Yosry Ahmed
Date: Mon Jun 13 2022 - 15:15:47 EST


On Sun, Jun 12, 2022 at 8:18 PM Huang, Shaoqin <shaoqin.huang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On 6/7/2022 6:20 AM, Yosry Ahmed wrote:
> > Add NR_SECONDARY_PAGETABLE stat to count secondary page table uses, e.g.
> > KVM mmu. This provides more insights on the kernel memory used
> > by a workload.
> >
> > This stat will be used by subsequent patches to count KVM mmu
> > memory usage.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst | 5 +++++
> > Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst | 4 ++++
> > drivers/base/node.c | 2 ++
> > fs/proc/meminfo.c | 2 ++
> > include/linux/mmzone.h | 1 +
> > mm/memcontrol.c | 1 +
> > mm/page_alloc.c | 6 +++++-
> > mm/vmstat.c | 1 +
> > 8 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst
> > index 69d7a6983f781..307a284b99189 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst
> > +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst
> > @@ -1312,6 +1312,11 @@ PAGE_SIZE multiple when read back.
> > pagetables
> > Amount of memory allocated for page tables.
> >
> > + sec_pagetables
> > + Amount of memory allocated for secondary page tables,
> > + this currently includes KVM mmu allocations on x86
> > + and arm64.
> > +
> > percpu (npn)
> > Amount of memory used for storing per-cpu kernel
> > data structures.
> > diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst
> > index 061744c436d99..894d6317f3bdc 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst
> > +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst
> > @@ -973,6 +973,7 @@ You may not have all of these fields.
> > SReclaimable: 159856 kB
> > SUnreclaim: 124508 kB
> > PageTables: 24448 kB
> > + SecPageTables: 0 kB
> > NFS_Unstable: 0 kB
> > Bounce: 0 kB
> > WritebackTmp: 0 kB
> > @@ -1067,6 +1068,9 @@ SUnreclaim
> > PageTables
> > amount of memory dedicated to the lowest level of page
> > tables.
> > +SecPageTables
> > + amount of memory dedicated to secondary page tables, this
> > + currently includes KVM mmu allocations on x86 and arm64.
>
> Just a notice. This patch in the latest 5.19.0-rc2+ have a conflict in
> Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst file. But that's not a problem.

Thanks for pointing this out. Let me know if a rebase and resend is necessary.

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