Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] procfs: Add 'size' to /proc/<pid>/fdinfo/

[Brian Foster]

On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 03:38:02PM -0700, Kalesh Singh wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 4:54 AM Brian Foster <bfoster@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 23, 2022 at 03:06:06PM -0700, Kalesh Singh wrote:
> > > To be able to account the amount of memory a process is keeping pinned
> > > by open file descriptors add a 'size' field to fdinfo output.
> > >
> > > dmabufs fds already expose a 'size' field for this reason, remove this
> > > and make it a common field for all fds. This allows tracking of
> > > other types of memory (e.g. memfd and ashmem in Android).
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Reviewed-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@xxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > >
> > > Changes in v2:
> > >   - Add Christian's Reviewed-by
> > >
> > > Changes from rfc:
> > >   - Split adding 'size' and 'path' into a separate patches, per Christian
> > >   - Split fdinfo seq_printf into separate lines, per Christian
> > >   - Fix indentation (use tabs) in documentaion, per Randy
> > >
> > >  Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst | 12 ++++++++++--
> > >  drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf.c          |  1 -
> > >  fs/proc/fd.c                       |  9 +++++----
> > >  3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> > >
...
> >
> > Also not sure if it matters that much for your use case, but something
> > worth noting at least with shmem is that one can do something like:
> >
> > # cat /proc/meminfo | grep Shmem:
> > Shmem:               764 kB
> > # xfs_io -fc "falloc -k 0 10m" ./file
> > # ls -alh file
> > -rw-------. 1 root root 0 Jun 28 07:22 file
> > # stat file
> >   File: file
> >   Size: 0               Blocks: 20480      IO Block: 4096   regular empty file
> > # cat /proc/meminfo | grep Shmem:
> > Shmem:             11004 kB
> >
> > ... where the resulting memory usage isn't reflected in i_size (but is
> > is in i_blocks/bytes).
> 
> I tried a similar experiment a few times, but I don't see the same
> results. In my case, there is not any change in shmem. IIUC the
> fallocate is allocating the disk space not shared memory.
> 

Sorry, it was implied in my previous test was that I was running against
tmpfs. So regardless of fs, the fallocate keep_size semantics shown in
both cases is as expected: the underlying blocks are allocated and the
inode size is unchanged.

What wasn't totally clear to me when I read this patch was 1. whether
tmpfs refers to Shmem and 2. whether tmpfs allowed this sort of
operation. The test above seems to confirm both, however, right? E.g., a
more detailed example:

# mount | grep /tmp
tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,seclabel,nr_inodes=1048576,inode64)
# cat /proc/meminfo | grep Shmem:
Shmem:              5300 kB
# xfs_io -fc "falloc -k 0 1g" /tmp/file
# stat /tmp/file 
  File: /tmp/file
  Size: 0               Blocks: 2097152    IO Block: 4096   regular empty file
Device: 22h/34d Inode: 45          Links: 1
Access: (0600/-rw-------)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (    0/    root)
Context: unconfined_u:object_r:user_tmp_t:s0
Access: 2022-06-29 08:04:01.301307154 -0400
Modify: 2022-06-29 08:04:01.301307154 -0400
Change: 2022-06-29 08:04:01.451312834 -0400
 Birth: 2022-06-29 08:04:01.301307154 -0400
# cat /proc/meminfo | grep Shmem:
Shmem:           1053876 kB
# rm -f /tmp/file 
# cat /proc/meminfo | grep Shmem:
Shmem:              5300 kB

So clearly this impacts Shmem.. was your test run against tmpfs or some
other (disk based) fs?

FWIW, I don't have any objection to exposing inode size if it's commonly
useful information. My feedback was more just an fyi that i_size doesn't
necessarily reflect underlying space consumption (whether it's memory or
disk space) in more generic cases, because it sounds like that is really
what you're after here. The opposite example to the above would be
something like an 'xfs_io -fc "truncate 1t" /tmp/file', which shows a
1TB inode size with zero additional shmem usage.

Brian

> cat /proc/meminfo > meminfo.start
> xfs_io -fc "falloc -k 0 50m" ./xfs_file
> cat /proc/meminfo > meminfo.stop
> tail -n +1 meminfo.st* | grep -i '==\|Shmem:'
> 
> ==> meminfo.start <==
> Shmem:               484 kB
> ==> meminfo.stop <==
> Shmem:               484 kB
> 
> ls -lh xfs_file
> -rw------- 1 root root 0 Jun 28 15:12 xfs_file
> 
> stat xfs_file
>   File: xfs_file
>   Size: 0               Blocks: 102400     IO Block: 4096   regular empty file
> 
> Thanks,
> Kalesh
> 
> >
> > Brian
> >
> > >
> > >       /* show_fd_locks() never deferences files so a stale value is safe */
> > >       show_fd_locks(m, file, files);
> > > --
> > > 2.37.0.rc0.161.g10f37bed90-goog
> > >
> >
>