linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/4][resend] Show kernel stack usage in /proc/meminfo and OOM log output

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Date:	Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:29:52 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, fengguang.wu@...el.com,
	cl@...ux-foundation.org, riel@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4][resend]  Show kernel stack usage in /proc/meminfo
 and OOM log output

On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:02:25 +0900 (JST)
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com> wrote:

> ChangeLog
>   Since v1
>    - Rewrote the descriptin (Thanks Christoph!)
> 
> =====================
> Subject: [PATCH] Show kernel stack usage in /proc/meminfo and OOM log output
> 
> The amount of memory allocated to kernel stacks can become significant and
> cause OOM conditions. However, we do not display the amount of memory
> consumed by stacks.
> 
> Add code to display the amount of memory used for stacks in /proc/meminfo.
> 
> ...
>  
> +static void account_kernel_stack(struct thread_info *ti, int account)
> +{
> +	struct zone *zone = page_zone(virt_to_page(ti));
> +
> +	mod_zone_page_state(zone, NR_KERNEL_STACK, account);
> +}
> +
>  void free_task(struct task_struct *tsk)
>  {
>  	prop_local_destroy_single(&tsk->dirties);
> +	account_kernel_stack(tsk->stack, -1);

But surely there are other less expensive ways of calculating this. 
The number we want is small-known-constant * number-of-tasks.

number-of-tasks probably isn't tracked, but can be calculated along the
lines of nr_running(), nr_uninterruptible() and nr_iowait().

number-of-tasks is also equal to number-of-task_structs and
number-of_thread_infos which can be obtained from slab (if the arch
implemented these via slab - uglier).


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