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authorVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>2018-10-26 15:05:50 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-10-26 16:26:32 -0700
commit61f94e18de94f79abaad3bb83549ff78923ac785 (patch)
treee76af5163ffc10843bf5d6c5e07a2078b2dd4b30 /Documentation
parentb29940c1abd7a4c3abeb926df0a5ec84d6902d47 (diff)
downloadlinux-61f94e18de94f79abaad3bb83549ff78923ac785.tar.bz2
mm, proc: add KReclaimable to /proc/meminfo
The vmstat NR_KERNEL_MISC_RECLAIMABLE counter is for kernel non-slab allocations that can be reclaimed via shrinker. In /proc/meminfo, we can show the sum of all reclaimable kernel allocations (including slab) as "KReclaimable". Add the same counter also to per-node meminfo under /sys With this counter, users will have more complete information about kernel memory usage. Non-slab reclaimable pages (currently just the ION allocator) will not be missing from /proc/meminfo, making users wonder where part of their memory went. More precisely, they already appear in MemAvailable, but without the new counter, it's not obvious why the value in MemAvailable doesn't fully correspond with the sum of other counters participating in it. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180731090649.16028-6-vbabka@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@linaro.org> Cc: Vijayanand Jitta <vjitta@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt4
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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
index 22b4b00dee31..12a5e6e693b6 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
@@ -858,6 +858,7 @@ Writeback: 0 kB
AnonPages: 861800 kB
Mapped: 280372 kB
Shmem: 644 kB
+KReclaimable: 168048 kB
Slab: 284364 kB
SReclaimable: 159856 kB
SUnreclaim: 124508 kB
@@ -925,6 +926,9 @@ AnonHugePages: Non-file backed huge pages mapped into userspace page tables
ShmemHugePages: Memory used by shared memory (shmem) and tmpfs allocated
with huge pages
ShmemPmdMapped: Shared memory mapped into userspace with huge pages
+KReclaimable: Kernel allocations that the kernel will attempt to reclaim
+ under memory pressure. Includes SReclaimable (below), and other
+ direct allocations with a shrinker.
Slab: in-kernel data structures cache
SReclaimable: Part of Slab, that might be reclaimed, such as caches
SUnreclaim: Part of Slab, that cannot be reclaimed on memory pressure