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Today, we do not have any observability of per-page metadata and how much it takes away from the machine capacity. Thus, we want to describe the amount of memory that is going towards per-page metadata, which can vary depending on build configuration, machine architecture, and system use. This patch adds 2 fields to /proc/vmstat that can used as shown below: Accounting per-page metadata allocated by boot-allocator: /proc/vmstat:nr_memmap_boot * PAGE_SIZE Accounting per-page metadata allocated by buddy-allocator: /proc/vmstat:nr_memmap * PAGE_SIZE Accounting total Perpage metadata allocated on the machine: (/proc/vmstat:nr_memmap_boot + /proc/vmstat:nr_memmap) * PAGE_SIZE Utility for userspace: Observability: Describe the amount of memory overhead that is going to per-page metadata on the system at any given time since this overhead is not currently observable. Debugging: Tracking the changes or absolute value in struct pages can help detect anomalies as they can be correlated with other metrics in the machine (e.g., memtotal, number of huge pages, etc). page_ext overheads: Some kernel features such as page_owner page_table_check that use page_ext can be optionally enabled via kernel parameters. Having the total per-page metadata information helps users precisely measure impact. Furthermore, page-metadata metrics will reflect the amount of struct pages reliquished (or overhead reduced) when hugetlbfs pages are reserved which will vary depending on whether hugetlb vmemmap optimization is enabled or not. For background and results see: lore.kernel.org/all/20240220214558.3377482-1-souravpanda@google.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240605222751.1406125-1-souravpanda@google.com Signed-off-by: Sourav Panda <souravpanda@google.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Reviewed-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> Cc: Chen Linxuan <chenlinxuan@uniontech.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Ivan Babrou <ivan@cloudflare.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Tomas Mudrunka <tomas.mudrunka@gmail.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com> Cc: Yang Yang <yang.yang29@zte.com.cn> Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> |
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.