[PATCH] Make SPLIT_RSS_COUNTING configurable

[Daniel Colascione]

Using the new config option, users can disable SPLIT_RSS_COUNTING to
get increased accuracy in user-visible mm counters.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Colascione <dancol@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 include/linux/mm.h            |  4 ++--
 include/linux/mm_types_task.h |  5 ++---
 include/linux/sched.h         |  2 +-
 kernel/fork.c                 |  2 +-
 mm/Kconfig                    | 11 +++++++++++
 mm/memory.c                   |  6 +++---
 6 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index cc292273e6ba..221395de3cb4 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -1637,7 +1637,7 @@ static inline unsigned long get_mm_counter(struct mm_struct *mm, int member)
 {
 	long val = atomic_long_read(&mm->rss_stat.count[member]);
 
-#ifdef SPLIT_RSS_COUNTING
+#ifdef CONFIG_SPLIT_RSS_COUNTING
 	/*
 	 * counter is updated in asynchronous manner and may go to minus.
 	 * But it's never be expected number for users.
@@ -1723,7 +1723,7 @@ static inline void setmax_mm_hiwater_rss(unsigned long *maxrss,
 		*maxrss = hiwater_rss;
 }
 
-#if defined(SPLIT_RSS_COUNTING)
+#ifdef CONFIG_SPLIT_RSS_COUNTING
 void sync_mm_rss(struct mm_struct *mm);
 #else
 static inline void sync_mm_rss(struct mm_struct *mm)
diff --git a/include/linux/mm_types_task.h b/include/linux/mm_types_task.h
index c1bc6731125c..d2adc8057e65 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm_types_task.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm_types_task.h
@@ -48,14 +48,13 @@ enum {
 	NR_MM_COUNTERS
 };
 
-#if USE_SPLIT_PTE_PTLOCKS && defined(CONFIG_MMU)
-#define SPLIT_RSS_COUNTING
+#ifdef CONFIG_SPLIT_RSS_COUNTING
 /* per-thread cached information, */
 struct task_rss_stat {
 	int events;	/* for synchronization threshold */
 	int count[NR_MM_COUNTERS];
 };
-#endif /* USE_SPLIT_PTE_PTLOCKS */
+#endif /* CONFIG_SPLIT_RSS_COUNTING */
 
 struct mm_rss_stat {
 	atomic_long_t count[NR_MM_COUNTERS];
diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index 2c2e56bd8913..22f354774540 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -729,7 +729,7 @@ struct task_struct {
 	/* Per-thread vma caching: */
 	struct vmacache			vmacache;
 
-#ifdef SPLIT_RSS_COUNTING
+#ifdef CONFIG_SPLIT_RSS_COUNTING
 	struct task_rss_stat		rss_stat;
 #endif
 	int				exit_state;
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index f9572f416126..fc5e0889922b 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -1917,7 +1917,7 @@ static __latent_entropy struct task_struct *copy_process(
 	p->vtime.state = VTIME_INACTIVE;
 #endif
 
-#if defined(SPLIT_RSS_COUNTING)
+#ifdef CONFIG_SPLIT_RSS_COUNTING
 	memset(&p->rss_stat, 0, sizeof(p->rss_stat));
 #endif
 
diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig
index a5dae9a7eb51..372ef9449924 100644
--- a/mm/Kconfig
+++ b/mm/Kconfig
@@ -736,4 +736,15 @@ config ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL
 config ARCH_HAS_HUGEPD
 	bool
 
+config SPLIT_RSS_COUNTING
+	bool "Per-thread mm counter caching"
+	depends on MMU
+	default y if NR_CPUS >= SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS
+	help
+	  Cache mm counter updates in thread structures and
+	  flush them to visible per-process statistics in batches.
+	  Say Y here to slightly reduce cache contention in processes
+	  with many threads at the expense of decreasing the accuracy
+	  of memory statistics in /proc.
+	  
 endmenu
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index b1ca51a079f2..bf557ed5ba23 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ static int __init init_zero_pfn(void)
 core_initcall(init_zero_pfn);
 
 
-#if defined(SPLIT_RSS_COUNTING)
+#ifdef CONFIG_SPLIT_RSS_COUNTING
 
 void sync_mm_rss(struct mm_struct *mm)
 {
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ static void check_sync_rss_stat(struct task_struct *task)
 	if (unlikely(task->rss_stat.events++ > TASK_RSS_EVENTS_THRESH))
 		sync_mm_rss(task->mm);
 }
-#else /* SPLIT_RSS_COUNTING */
+#else /* CONFIG_SPLIT_RSS_COUNTING */
 
 #define inc_mm_counter_fast(mm, member) inc_mm_counter(mm, member)
 #define dec_mm_counter_fast(mm, member) dec_mm_counter(mm, member)
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ static void check_sync_rss_stat(struct task_struct *task)
 {
 }
 
-#endif /* SPLIT_RSS_COUNTING */
+#endif /* CONFIG_SPLIT_RSS_COUNTING */
 
 /*
  * Note: this doesn't free the actual pages themselves. That
-- 
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