[RFCv2][PATCH 4/4] show page size in /proc/$pid/numa_maps

From: Dave Hansen
Date: Fri Sep 30 2011 - 16:32:49 EST



The output of /proc/$pid/numa_maps is in terms of number of pages
like anon=22 or dirty=54. Here's some output:

7f4680000000 default file=/hugetlb/bigfile anon=50 dirty=50 N0=50
7f7659600000 default file=/anon_hugepage\040(deleted) anon=50 dirty=50 N0=50
7fff8d425000 default stack anon=50 dirty=50 N0=50

Looks like we have a stack and a couple of anonymous hugetlbfs
areas page which both use the same amount of memory. They don't.

The 'bigfile' uses 1GB pages and takes up ~50GB of space. The
anon_hugepage uses 2MB pages and takes up ~100MB of space while
the stack uses normal 4k pages. You can go over to smaps to
figure out what the page size _really_ is with KernelPageSize
or MMUPageSize. But, I think this is a pretty nasty and
counterintuitive interface as it stands.

The following patch adds a pagesize= field. Note that this only
shows the kernel's notion of page size. For transparent
hugepages, it still shows the base page size. Here's some real
output. Note the anon_hugepage in there.

# cat /proc/`pidof memknobs`/numa_maps
00400000 default file=/root/memknobs pagesize=4KiB dirty=3 active=2 N0=3
00602000 default file=/root/memknobs pagesize=4KiB anon=1 dirty=1 N0=1
00603000 default file=/root/memknobs pagesize=4KiB anon=1 dirty=1 N0=1
00604000 default heap pagesize=4KiB anon=6 dirty=6 N0=6
7f6766216000 default file=/lib/libc-2.9.so pagesize=4KiB mapped=98 mapmax=25 active=97 N0=98
7f676637e000 default file=/lib/libc-2.9.so
7f676657e000 default file=/lib/libc-2.9.so pagesize=4KiB anon=4 dirty=4 N0=4
7f6766582000 default file=/lib/libc-2.9.so pagesize=4KiB anon=1 dirty=1 N0=1
7f6766583000 default pagesize=4KiB anon=3 dirty=3 N0=3
7f6766588000 default file=/lib/ld-2.9.so pagesize=4KiB mapped=25 mapmax=24 N0=25
7f676679d000 default pagesize=4KiB anon=2 dirty=2 N0=2
7f67667a3000 default pagesize=4KiB anon=4 dirty=4 N0=4
7f67667a7000 default file=/lib/ld-2.9.so pagesize=4KiB anon=1 dirty=1 N0=1
7f67667a8000 default file=/lib/ld-2.9.so pagesize=4KiB anon=1 dirty=1 N0=1
7f6766800000 default file=/anon_hugepage\040(deleted) pagesize=2MiB anon=10 dirty=10 N0=10
7fff5b948000 default stack pagesize=4KiB anon=2 dirty=2 N0=2
7fff5b96d000 default

Signed-off-by: Dave Haneen <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

linux-2.6.git-dave/fs/proc/task_mmu.c | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff -puN fs/proc/task_mmu.c~show-page-size fs/proc/task_mmu.c
--- linux-2.6.git/fs/proc/task_mmu.c~show-page-size 2011-09-30 13:27:55.973467993 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.git-dave/fs/proc/task_mmu.c 2011-09-30 13:27:55.981467979 -0700
@@ -1044,6 +1044,11 @@ static int show_numa_map(struct seq_file
if (!md->pages)
goto out;

+ /* Only interesting for hugetlbfs pages.
+ * Transparent hugepages are still pagesize=4k */
+ seq_puts(m, " pagesize=");
+ seq_print_pow2(m, vma_kernel_pagesize(vma));
+
if (md->anon)
seq_printf(m, " anon=%lu", md->anon);

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