[PATCH 4/4] mm/ksm: calculate general_profit more accurately

From: Chengming Zhou
Date: Wed May 08 2024 - 05:57:33 EST


The memory resource of KSM is mainly ksm_rmap_item, which has to allocate
for each anon page that mm has mapped on. Another memory resource is the
ksm_stable_node, which is much less than the ksm_rmap_item.

We can account it easily to make general_profit calculation more accurate.
This is important when max_page_sharing is limited and so we have more
chained nodes.

Signed-off-by: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@xxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/ksm.c | 14 ++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/ksm.c b/mm/ksm.c
index 87ffd228944c..a9ce17e6814d 100644
--- a/mm/ksm.c
+++ b/mm/ksm.c
@@ -267,6 +267,9 @@ static unsigned long ksm_pages_unshared;
/* The number of rmap_items in use: to calculate pages_volatile */
static unsigned long ksm_rmap_items;

+/* The number of stable_node */
+static unsigned long ksm_stable_nodes;
+
/* The number of stable_node chains */
static unsigned long ksm_stable_node_chains;

@@ -584,12 +587,17 @@ static inline void free_rmap_item(struct ksm_rmap_item *rmap_item)

static inline struct ksm_stable_node *alloc_stable_node(void)
{
+ struct ksm_stable_node *node;
+
/*
* The allocation can take too long with GFP_KERNEL when memory is under
* pressure, which may lead to hung task warnings. Adding __GFP_HIGH
* grants access to memory reserves, helping to avoid this problem.
*/
- return kmem_cache_alloc(stable_node_cache, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_HIGH);
+ node = kmem_cache_alloc(stable_node_cache, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_HIGH);
+ if (likely(node))
+ ksm_stable_nodes++;
+ return node;
}

static inline void free_stable_node(struct ksm_stable_node *stable_node)
@@ -597,6 +605,7 @@ static inline void free_stable_node(struct ksm_stable_node *stable_node)
VM_BUG_ON(stable_node->rmap_hlist_len &&
!is_stable_node_chain(stable_node));
kmem_cache_free(stable_node_cache, stable_node);
+ ksm_stable_nodes--;
}

/*
@@ -3671,7 +3680,8 @@ static ssize_t general_profit_show(struct kobject *kobj,
long general_profit;

general_profit = (ksm_pages_sharing + get_ksm_zero_pages()) * PAGE_SIZE -
- ksm_rmap_items * sizeof(struct ksm_rmap_item);
+ ksm_rmap_items * sizeof(struct ksm_rmap_item) -
+ ksm_stable_nodes * sizeof(struct ksm_stable_node);

return sysfs_emit(buf, "%ld\n", general_profit);
}

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