Re: [PATCH 3/3] mm: show number of vmalloc pages in /proc/meminfo

[Vlastimil Babka]

On 2/25/19 9:30 PM, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> Vmalloc() is getting more and more used these days (kernel stacks,
> bpf and percpu allocator are new top users), and the total %
> of memory consumed by vmalloc() can be pretty significant
> and changes dynamically.
> 
> /proc/meminfo is the best place to display this information:
> its top goal is to show top consumers of the memory.
> 
> Since the VmallocUsed field in /proc/meminfo is not in use
> for quite a long time (it has been defined to 0 by the
> commit a5ad88ce8c7f ("mm: get rid of 'vmalloc_info' from
> /proc/meminfo")), let's reuse it for showing the actual

Hm that commit is not that old (2015) and talks about two caching
approaches from Linus and Ingo, so CCing them here for input, as
apparently it was not deemed worth the trouble at that time.

> physical memory consumption of vmalloc().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@xxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  fs/proc/meminfo.c       |  2 +-
>  include/linux/vmalloc.h |  2 ++
>  mm/vmalloc.c            | 10 ++++++++++
>  3 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/proc/meminfo.c b/fs/proc/meminfo.c
> index 568d90e17c17..465ea0153b2a 100644
> --- a/fs/proc/meminfo.c
> +++ b/fs/proc/meminfo.c
> @@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ static int meminfo_proc_show(struct seq_file *m, void *v)
>  	show_val_kb(m, "Committed_AS:   ", committed);
>  	seq_printf(m, "VmallocTotal:   %8lu kB\n",
>  		   (unsigned long)VMALLOC_TOTAL >> 10);
> -	show_val_kb(m, "VmallocUsed:    ", 0ul);
> +	show_val_kb(m, "VmallocUsed:    ", vmalloc_nr_pages());
>  	show_val_kb(m, "VmallocChunk:   ", 0ul);
>  	show_val_kb(m, "Percpu:         ", pcpu_nr_pages());
>  
> diff --git a/include/linux/vmalloc.h b/include/linux/vmalloc.h
> index 398e9c95cd61..0b497408272b 100644
> --- a/include/linux/vmalloc.h
> +++ b/include/linux/vmalloc.h
> @@ -63,10 +63,12 @@ extern void vm_unmap_aliases(void);
>  
>  #ifdef CONFIG_MMU
>  extern void __init vmalloc_init(void);
> +extern unsigned long vmalloc_nr_pages(void);
>  #else
>  static inline void vmalloc_init(void)
>  {
>  }
> +static inline unsigned long vmalloc_nr_pages(void) { return 0; }
>  #endif
>  
>  extern void *vmalloc(unsigned long size);
> diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
> index f1f19d1105c4..3a1872ee8294 100644
> --- a/mm/vmalloc.c
> +++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
> @@ -340,6 +340,13 @@ static unsigned long cached_align;
>  
>  static unsigned long vmap_area_pcpu_hole;
>  
> +static atomic_long_t nr_vmalloc_pages;
> +
> +unsigned long vmalloc_nr_pages(void)
> +{
> +	return atomic_long_read(&nr_vmalloc_pages);
> +}
> +
>  static struct vmap_area *__find_vmap_area(unsigned long addr)
>  {
>  	struct rb_node *n = vmap_area_root.rb_node;
> @@ -1566,6 +1573,7 @@ static void __vunmap(const void *addr, int deallocate_pages)
>  			BUG_ON(!page);
>  			__free_pages(page, 0);
>  		}
> +		atomic_long_sub(area->nr_pages, &nr_vmalloc_pages);
>  
>  		kvfree(area->pages);
>  	}
> @@ -1742,12 +1750,14 @@ static void *__vmalloc_area_node(struct vm_struct *area, gfp_t gfp_mask,
>  		if (unlikely(!page)) {
>  			/* Successfully allocated i pages, free them in __vunmap() */
>  			area->nr_pages = i;
> +			atomic_long_add(area->nr_pages, &nr_vmalloc_pages);
>  			goto fail;
>  		}
>  		area->pages[i] = page;
>  		if (gfpflags_allow_blocking(gfp_mask|highmem_mask))
>  			cond_resched();
>  	}
> +	atomic_long_add(area->nr_pages, &nr_vmalloc_pages);
>  
>  	if (map_vm_area(area, prot, pages))
>  		goto fail;
>