linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: show stats for non-default hugepage sizes in /proc/meminfo

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Date:   Mon, 13 Nov 2017 17:11:02 +0100
From:   Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
To:     Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@...cle.com>,
        "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>, kernel-team@...com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: show stats for non-default hugepage sizes in
 /proc/meminfo

On Mon 13-11-17 16:03:02, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> Currently we display some hugepage statistics (total, free, etc)
> in /proc/meminfo, but only for default hugepage size (e.g. 2Mb).
> 
> If hugepages of different sizes are used (like 2Mb and 1Gb on x86-64),
> /proc/meminfo output can be confusing, as non-default sized hugepages
> are not reflected at all, and there are no signs that they are
> existing and consuming system memory.

Yes this sucks but we do have per numa node per h-state stats in sysfs
already /sys/devices/system/node/node*/hugepages

I know it is another source of the information but is there any reason
you cannot use it?
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs