linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v7 1/4] mm: add NR_SECONDARY_PAGETABLE to count secondary page table uses.

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Message-ID: <5ac13c91-0e42-533b-42d0-c78573c7aef3@arm.com>
Date:   Wed, 24 Aug 2022 14:41:49 +0100
From:   Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@....com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 1/4] mm: add NR_SECONDARY_PAGETABLE to count secondary
 page table uses.

> diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst
> index e7aafc82be99..898c99eae8e4 100644
> --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst
> @@ -982,6 +982,7 @@ Example output. You may not have all of these fields.
>       SUnreclaim:       142336 kB
>       KernelStack:       11168 kB
>       PageTables:        20540 kB
> +    SecPageTables:         0 kB
>       NFS_Unstable:          0 kB
>       Bounce:                0 kB
>       WritebackTmp:          0 kB
> @@ -1090,6 +1091,9 @@ KernelStack
>                 Memory consumed by the kernel stacks of all tasks
>   PageTables
>                 Memory consumed by userspace page tables
> +SecPageTables
> +              Memory consumed by secondary page tables, this currently
> +              currently includes KVM mmu allocations on x86 and arm64.

nit: I think you have a typo here: "currently currently".

Thanks,
Ryan