linux-kernel - [PATCH] proc: speed up /proc/*/statm

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Date:   Sat, 7 Mar 2020 18:44:35 +0300
From:   Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
To:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] proc: speed up /proc/*/statm

top(1) reads all /proc/*/statm files but kernel threads will always have
zeros. Print those zeroes directly without going through seq_put_decimal_ull().

Speed up reading /proc/2/statm (which is kthreadd) is like 3%.

My system has more kernel threads than normal processes after booting KDE.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
---

 fs/proc/array.c |   39 +++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/proc/array.c
+++ b/fs/proc/array.c
@@ -635,28 +635,35 @@ int proc_tgid_stat(struct seq_file *m, struct pid_namespace *ns,
 int proc_pid_statm(struct seq_file *m, struct pid_namespace *ns,
 			struct pid *pid, struct task_struct *task)
 {
-	unsigned long size = 0, resident = 0, shared = 0, text = 0, data = 0;
 	struct mm_struct *mm = get_task_mm(task);
 
 	if (mm) {
+		unsigned long size;
+		unsigned long resident = 0;
+		unsigned long shared = 0;
+		unsigned long text = 0;
+		unsigned long data = 0;
+
 		size = task_statm(mm, &shared, &text, &data, &resident);
 		mmput(mm);
-	}
-	/*
-	 * For quick read, open code by putting numbers directly
-	 * expected format is
-	 * seq_printf(m, "%lu %lu %lu %lu 0 %lu 0\n",
-	 *               size, resident, shared, text, data);
-	 */
-	seq_put_decimal_ull(m, "", size);
-	seq_put_decimal_ull(m, " ", resident);
-	seq_put_decimal_ull(m, " ", shared);
-	seq_put_decimal_ull(m, " ", text);
-	seq_put_decimal_ull(m, " ", 0);
-	seq_put_decimal_ull(m, " ", data);
-	seq_put_decimal_ull(m, " ", 0);
-	seq_putc(m, '\n');
 
+		/*
+		 * For quick read, open code by putting numbers directly
+		 * expected format is
+		 * seq_printf(m, "%lu %lu %lu %lu 0 %lu 0\n",
+		 *               size, resident, shared, text, data);
+		 */
+		seq_put_decimal_ull(m, "", size);
+		seq_put_decimal_ull(m, " ", resident);
+		seq_put_decimal_ull(m, " ", shared);
+		seq_put_decimal_ull(m, " ", text);
+		seq_put_decimal_ull(m, " ", 0);
+		seq_put_decimal_ull(m, " ", data);
+		seq_put_decimal_ull(m, " ", 0);
+		seq_putc(m, '\n');
+	} else {
+		seq_write(m, "0 0 0 0 0 0 0\n", 14);
+	}
 	return 0;
 }