Re: [REGRESSION] "Locked" and "Pss" in /proc/*/smaps are the same

[Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>]

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On 07/01/2018 08:31 PM, Thomas Lindroth wrote:
> While looking around in /proc on my v4.14.52 system I noticed that
> all processes got a lot of "Locked" memory in /proc/*/smaps. A lot
> more memory than a regular user can usually lock with mlock().
> 
> commit 493b0e9d945fa9dfe96be93ae41b4ca4b6fdb317 (v4.14-rc1) seems
> to have changed the behavior of "Locked".
> 
> commit 493b0e9d945fa9dfe96be93ae41b4ca4b6fdb317
> Author: Daniel Colascione <dancol@google.com>
> Date:   Wed Sep 6 16:25:08 2017 -0700
> 
>     mm: add /proc/pid/smaps_rollup
> 
> Before that commit the code was like this. Notice the VM_LOCKED
> check.
> 
> seq_printf(m,
>            "Size:           %8lu kB\n"
>            "Rss:            %8lu kB\n"
>            "Pss:            %8lu kB\n"
>            "Shared_Clean:   %8lu kB\n"
>            "Shared_Dirty:   %8lu kB\n"
>            "Private_Clean:  %8lu kB\n"
>            "Private_Dirty:  %8lu kB\n"
>            "Referenced:     %8lu kB\n"
>            "Anonymous:      %8lu kB\n"
>            "LazyFree:       %8lu kB\n"
>            "AnonHugePages:  %8lu kB\n"
>            "ShmemPmdMapped: %8lu kB\n"
>            "Shared_Hugetlb: %8lu kB\n"
>            "Private_Hugetlb: %7lu kB\n"
>            "Swap:           %8lu kB\n"
>            "SwapPss:        %8lu kB\n"
>            "KernelPageSize: %8lu kB\n"
>            "MMUPageSize:    %8lu kB\n"
>            "Locked:         %8lu kB\n",
>            (vma->vm_end - vma->vm_start) >> 10,
>            mss.resident >> 10,
>            (unsigned long)(mss.pss >> (10 + PSS_SHIFT)),
>            mss.shared_clean  >> 10,
>            mss.shared_dirty  >> 10,
>            mss.private_clean >> 10,
>            mss.private_dirty >> 10,
>            mss.referenced >> 10,
>            mss.anonymous >> 10,
>            mss.lazyfree >> 10,
>            mss.anonymous_thp >> 10,
>            mss.shmem_thp >> 10,
>            mss.shared_hugetlb >> 10,
>            mss.private_hugetlb >> 10,
>            mss.swap >> 10,
>            (unsigned long)(mss.swap_pss >> (10 + PSS_SHIFT)),
>            vma_kernel_pagesize(vma) >> 10,
>            vma_mmu_pagesize(vma) >> 10,
>            (vma->vm_flags & VM_LOCKED) ?
>                 (unsigned long)(mss.pss >> (10 + PSS_SHIFT)) : 0);
> 
> After that commit Locked is now the same as Pss. This looks like a
> mistake.
> 
> seq_printf(m,
>            "Rss:            %8lu kB\n"
>            "Pss:            %8lu kB\n"
>            "Shared_Clean:   %8lu kB\n"
>            "Shared_Dirty:   %8lu kB\n"
>            "Private_Clean:  %8lu kB\n"
>            "Private_Dirty:  %8lu kB\n"
>            "Referenced:     %8lu kB\n"
>            "Anonymous:      %8lu kB\n"
>            "LazyFree:       %8lu kB\n"
>            "AnonHugePages:  %8lu kB\n"
>            "ShmemPmdMapped: %8lu kB\n"
>            "Shared_Hugetlb: %8lu kB\n"
>            "Private_Hugetlb: %7lu kB\n"
>            "Swap:           %8lu kB\n"
>            "SwapPss:        %8lu kB\n"
>            "Locked:         %8lu kB\n",
>            mss->resident >> 10,
>            (unsigned long)(mss->pss >> (10 + PSS_SHIFT)),
>            mss->shared_clean  >> 10,
>            mss->shared_dirty  >> 10,
>            mss->private_clean >> 10,
>            mss->private_dirty >> 10,
>            mss->referenced >> 10,
>            mss->anonymous >> 10,
>            mss->lazyfree >> 10,
>            mss->anonymous_thp >> 10,
>            mss->shmem_thp >> 10,
>            mss->shared_hugetlb >> 10,
>            mss->private_hugetlb >> 10,
>            mss->swap >> 10,
>            (unsigned long)(mss->swap_pss >> (10 + PSS_SHIFT)),
>            (unsigned long)(mss->pss >> (10 + PSS_SHIFT)));
> 
> The latest git has changed a bit but the functionality is the
> same.

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