linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -mmotm-2009-12-10-17-19] Fix wrong rss count of smaps

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Message-Id: <20091228144302.864f2e97.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Date:	Mon, 28 Dec 2009 14:43:02 +0900
From:	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@...il.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>, Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>,
	Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@...cali.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mmotm-2009-12-10-17-19] Fix wrong rss count of smaps

On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 14:31:54 +0900
Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@...il.com> wrote:
> 
> > BTW, how about counting ZERO page in smaps? Ignoring them completely sounds
> > not very good.
> 
> I am not use it is useful. 
> 
> zero page snapshot of ongoing process is useful?
> Doesn't Admin need to know about zero page?
> Let's admins use it well. If we remove zero page again?
> How many are applications use smaps? 
> Did we have a problem without it?
> 
My concern is that hiding indormation which was exported before.
No more than that and no strong demand.


> When I think of it, there are too many qeustions. 
> Most important thing to add new statistics is just need of customer. 
> 
> Frankly speaking, I don't have good scenario of using zero page.
> Do you have any scenario it is valueable?
> 
read before write ? maybe sometimes happens.

For example. current glibc's calloc() avoids memset() if the pages are
dropped by MADVISE (without unmap). 

Before starting zero-page works, I checked "questions" in lkml and
found some reports that some applications start to go OOM after zero-page
removal.

For me, I know one of my customer's application depends on behavior of
zero page (on RHEL5). So, I tried to add again it before RHEL6 because
I think removal of zero-page corrupts compatibility.

Thanks,
-Kame

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