Re: [PATCH -V3] /proc/PID/smaps: Add PMD migration entry parsing

[Kirill A. Shutemov]

On Fri, Apr 03, 2020 at 08:30:59PM +0800, Huang, Ying wrote:
> From: Huang Ying <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> 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.
> 
> To test the patch, we run pmbench to eat 400 MB memory in background, then run
> /usr/bin/migratepages and `cat /proc/PID/smaps` every second.  The issue as
> follows can be reproduced within 60 seconds.
> 
> Before the patch, for the fully populated 400 MB anonymous VMA, some THP pages
> under migration may be lost as below.
> 
> 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
> Shared_Hugetlb:        0 kB
> Private_Hugetlb:       0 kB
> Swap:                  0 kB
> SwapPss:               0 kB
> Locked:                0 kB
> THPeligible:		1
> VmFlags: rd wr mr mw me ac
> 
> After the patch, it will be always,
> 
> 7f3f6a7e5000-7f3f837e5000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
> Size:             409600 kB
> KernelPageSize:        4 kB
> MMUPageSize:           4 kB
> Rss:              409600 kB
> Pss:              409600 kB
> Shared_Clean:          0 kB
> Shared_Dirty:          0 kB
> Private_Clean:         0 kB
> Private_Dirty:    409600 kB
> Referenced:       294912 kB
> Anonymous:        409600 kB
> LazyFree:              0 kB
> AnonHugePages:    407552 kB
> ShmemPmdMapped:        0 kB
> FilePmdMapped:        0 kB
> Shared_Hugetlb:        0 kB
> Private_Hugetlb:       0 kB
> Swap:                  0 kB
> SwapPss:               0 kB
> Locked:                0 kB
> THPeligible:		1
> VmFlags: rd wr mr mw me ac
> 
> Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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 Kirill A. Shutemov