linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] fs/proc: add VmTaskSize field to /proc/$$/status

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Date:   Fri, 26 Apr 2019 21:16:24 -0400
From:   Rafael Aquini <aquini@...hat.com>
To:     Joel Savitz <jsavitz@...hat.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Ram Pai <linuxram@...ibm.com>,
        Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
        Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>,
        Sandeep Patil <sspatil@...roid.com>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] fs/proc: add VmTaskSize field to /proc/$$/status

On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 03:02:08PM -0400, Joel Savitz wrote:
> In the mainline kernel, there is no quick mechanism to get the virtual
> memory size of the current process from userspace.
> 
> Despite the current state of affairs, this information is available to the
> user through several means, one being a linear search of the entire address
> space. This is an inefficient use of cpu cycles.
> 
> A component of the libhugetlb kernel test does exactly this, and as
> systems' address spaces increase beyond 32-bits, this method becomes
> exceedingly tedious.
> 
> For example, on a ppc64le system with a 47-bit address space, the linear
> search causes the test to hang for some unknown amount of time. I
> couldn't give you an exact number because I just ran it for about 10-20
> minutes and went to go do something else, probably to get coffee or
> something, and when I came back, I just killed the test and patched it
> to use this new mechanism. I re-ran my new version of the test using a
> kernel with this patch, and of course it passed through the previously
> bottlenecking codepath nearly instantaneously.
> 
> This patched enabled me to upgrade an O(n) codepath to O(1) in an
> architecture-independent manner.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Joel Savitz <jsavitz@...hat.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 2 ++
>  fs/proc/task_mmu.c                 | 5 ++++-
>  2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
> index 66cad5c86171..1c6a912e3975 100644
> --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
> @@ -187,6 +187,7 @@ read the file /proc/PID/status:
>    VmLib:      1412 kB
>    VmPTE:        20 kb
>    VmSwap:        0 kB
> +  VmTaskSize:	137438953468 kB
>    HugetlbPages:          0 kB
>    CoreDumping:    0
>    THP_enabled:	  1
> @@ -263,6 +264,7 @@ Table 1-2: Contents of the status files (as of 4.19)
>   VmPTE                       size of page table entries
>   VmSwap                      amount of swap used by anonymous private data
>                               (shmem swap usage is not included)
> + VmTaskSize                  size of entire virtual address space of a process
>   HugetlbPages                size of hugetlb memory portions
>   CoreDumping                 process's memory is currently being dumped
>                               (killing the process may lead to a corrupted core)
> diff --git a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c b/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
> index 95ca1fe7283c..0ddd51479f90 100644
> --- a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
> +++ b/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
> @@ -74,7 +74,10 @@ void task_mem(struct seq_file *m, struct mm_struct *mm)
>  	seq_put_decimal_ull_width(m,
>  		    " kB\nVmPTE:\t", mm_pgtables_bytes(mm) >> 10, 8);
>  	SEQ_PUT_DEC(" kB\nVmSwap:\t", swap);
> -	seq_puts(m, " kB\n");
> +	SEQ_PUT_DEC(" kB\nVmSwap:\t", swap);
> +	seq_put_decimal_ull_width(m,
> +		    " kB\nVmTaskSize:\t", TASK_SIZE >> 10, 8);
> +	seq_puts(m, " kB\n");
>  	hugetlb_report_usage(m, mm);
>  }
>  #undef SEQ_PUT_DEC
> -- 
> 2.18.1
> 
Acked-by: Rafael Aquini <aquini@...hat.com>