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From: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
To: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	 "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	kernel-team@fb.com,  Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND] mm: show number of vmalloc pages in /proc/meminfo
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2019 14:59:42 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEwNFnALK=aAnyBypHbvw4khRwbOeMN=5gtgLWY+3F3HEpb2Ng@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190514235111.2817276-2-guro@fb.com>

Hi Roman,


On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 8:51 AM Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com> wrote:
>
> Vmalloc() is getting more and more used these days (kernel stacks,
> bpf and percpu allocator are new top users), and the total %
> of memory consumed by vmalloc() can be pretty significant
> and changes dynamically.
>
> /proc/meminfo is the best place to display this information:
> its top goal is to show top consumers of the memory.
>
> Since the VmallocUsed field in /proc/meminfo is not in use
> for quite a long time (it has been defined to 0 by the
> commit a5ad88ce8c7f ("mm: get rid of 'vmalloc_info' from
> /proc/meminfo")), let's reuse it for showing the actual
> physical memory consumption of vmalloc().
>
> Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>

How it's going on?
Android needs this patch since it has gathered vmalloc pages from
/proc/vmallocinfo. It's too slow.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-07-09  5:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-14 23:51 [PATCH] mm: refactor __vunmap() to avoid duplicated call to find_vm_area() Roman Gushchin
2019-05-14 23:51 ` [PATCH RESEND] mm: show number of vmalloc pages in /proc/meminfo Roman Gushchin
2019-05-15  7:14   ` Anshuman Khandual
2019-07-09  5:59   ` Minchan Kim [this message]
2019-07-10  1:31     ` Roman Gushchin
2019-05-15  4:27 ` [PATCH] mm: refactor __vunmap() to avoid duplicated call to find_vm_area() Anshuman Khandual
2019-05-15 17:18   ` Roman Gushchin
2019-05-15  7:41 ` Anshuman Khandual
2019-05-15 17:17   ` Roman Gushchin
2019-05-15 17:35 ` Ira Weiny
2019-05-15 17:45   ` Roman Gushchin

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