Re: [PATCH v7 1/4] mm: add NR_SECONDARY_PAGETABLE to count secondary page table uses.

From: Ryan Roberts
Date: Wed Aug 24 2022 - 13:40:39 EST


On 24/08/2022 18:25, Yosry Ahmed wrote:
On Wed, Aug 24, 2022 at 6:42 AM Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@xxxxxxx> wrote:

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst
index e7aafc82be99..898c99eae8e4 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst
@@ -982,6 +982,7 @@ Example output. You may not have all of these fields.
SUnreclaim: 142336 kB
KernelStack: 11168 kB
PageTables: 20540 kB
+ SecPageTables: 0 kB
NFS_Unstable: 0 kB
Bounce: 0 kB
WritebackTmp: 0 kB
@@ -1090,6 +1091,9 @@ KernelStack
Memory consumed by the kernel stacks of all tasks
PageTables
Memory consumed by userspace page tables
+SecPageTables
+ Memory consumed by secondary page tables, this currently
+ currently includes KVM mmu allocations on x86 and arm64.

nit: I think you have a typo here: "currently currently".

Sorry I missed this, thanks for catching it. The below diff fixes it
(let me know if I need to send v8 for this, hopefully not).

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst
b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst
index 898c99eae8e4..0b3778ec12e1 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst
@@ -1093,7 +1093,7 @@ PageTables
Memory consumed by userspace page tables
SecPageTables
Memory consumed by secondary page tables, this currently
- currently includes KVM mmu allocations on x86 and arm64.
+ includes KVM mmu allocations on x86 and arm64.
NFS_Unstable
Always zero. Previous counted pages which had been written to
the server, but has not been committed to stable storage.


Looks good to me!