linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -V2] /proc/PID/smaps: Add PMD migration entry parsing

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Date:   Thu, 2 Apr 2020 15:53:01 +0300
From:   "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@...el.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Zi Yan <ziy@...dia.com>,
        Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
        "Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...dex-team.ru>,
        Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@...hat.com>,
        Yang Shi <yang.shi@...ux.alibaba.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -V2] /proc/PID/smaps: Add PMD migration entry parsing

On Thu, Apr 02, 2020 at 10:00:31AM +0800, Huang, Ying wrote:
> From: Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>
> 
> Now, when read /proc/PID/smaps, the PMD migration entry in page table is simply
> ignored.  To improve the accuracy of /proc/PID/smaps, its parsing and processing
> is added.
> 
> Before the patch, for a fully populated 400 MB anonymous VMA, sometimes some THP
> pages under migration may be lost as follows.
> 
> 7f3f6a7e5000-7f3f837e5000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
> Size:             409600 kB
> KernelPageSize:        4 kB
> MMUPageSize:           4 kB
> Rss:              407552 kB
> Pss:              407552 kB
> Shared_Clean:          0 kB
> Shared_Dirty:          0 kB
> Private_Clean:         0 kB
> Private_Dirty:    407552 kB
> Referenced:       301056 kB
> Anonymous:        407552 kB
> LazyFree:              0 kB
> AnonHugePages:    405504 kB
> ShmemPmdMapped:        0 kB
> FilePmdMapped:        0 kB

The alignment makes me triggered.

Andrew, could you please apply this patch:

http://lore.kernel.org/r/20191230084125.267040-1-samuel.williams@oriontransfer.co.nz

-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov