From: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com>
To: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Cc: Linux MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] mm: why cat /proc/pid/smaps | grep Rss is different from cat /proc/pid/statm?
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2016 15:16:07 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56FB7D37.5070503@huawei.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALvZod5PnHz5OsNrcfsMZ6=cxLBy9436htbKerv67S+CigwGbQ@mail.gmail.com>
On 2016/3/22 22:47, Shakeel Butt wrote:
>
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 6:55 AM, Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com <mailto:qiuxishi@huawei.com>> wrote:
>
> [root@localhost c_test]# cat /proc/3948/smaps | grep Rss
>
> The /proc/[pid]/smaps read triggers the traversal of all of process's vmas and then page tables and accumulate RSS on each present page table entry.
>
> [root@localhost c_test]# cat /proc/3948/statm
> 1042 173 154 1 0 48 0
>
> The files /proc/[pid]/statm and /proc/[pid]/status uses the counters (MM_ANONPAGES & MM_FILEPAGES) in mm_struct to report RSS of a process. These counters are modified on page table modifications. However the kernel implements an optimization where each thread keeps a local copy of these counters in its task_struct. These local counter are accumulated in the shared counter of mm_struct after some number of page faults (I think 32) faced by the thread and thus there will be mismatch with smaps file.
>
> Shakeel
Hi Shakeel,
I malloc and memset 10M, then sleep. It seems that the problem is still exist,
the kernel version is v4.1
[root@localhost c_test]# cat /proc/13746/statm
3603 2767 250 1 0 2609 0
[root@localhost c_test]# cat /proc/13746/smaps | grep Rss
Rss: 4 kB
Rss: 4 kB
Rss: 4 kB
Rss: 10244 kB
Rss: 924 kB
Rss: 0 kB
Rss: 16 kB
Rss: 8 kB
Rss: 12 kB
Rss: 132 kB
Rss: 12 kB
Rss: 4 kB
Rss: 4 kB
Rss: 4 kB
Rss: 4 kB
Rss: 8 kB
Rss: 0 kB
Rss: 4 kB
Rss: 0 kB
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-22 13:55 Xishi Qiu
2016-03-22 14:47 ` Shakeel Butt
2016-03-30 7:16 ` Xishi Qiu [this message]
2016-03-30 9:39 ` Xishi Qiu
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