kernel/linux.git/fs/proc/meminfo.c, branch v6.19.11

mm, vmstat: remove the NR_WRITEBACK_TEMP node_stat_item counter

2025-07-20T01:59:47+00:00

The only user of the counter (FUSE) was removed in commit 0c58a97f919c ("fuse: remove tmp folio for writebacks and internal rb tree") so follow the established pattern of removing the counter and hardcoding 0 in meminfo output, as done recently with NR_BOUNCE. Update documentation for procfs, including for the value for Bounce that was missed when removing its counter. Also remove the mention of NR_WRITEBACK_TEMP implications from a comment in wb_position_ratio(). The rest of the comment there about fuse setting bdi->max_ratio to 1% is still correct. [vbabka@suse.cz: v2] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/5a848e15-6a57-4ecb-a015-d4f358b8a5d3@suse.cz Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250625-nr_writeback_removal-v1-1-7f2a0df70faa@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Brendan Jackman Cc: Danilo Krummrich Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Jan Kara Cc: Jeff Layton Cc: Jeffle Xu Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: Joanne Koong Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Kirill A. Shuemov Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Cc: Maxim Patlasov Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Miklos Szeredi Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Zach O'Keefe Cc: Zi Yan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: remove NR_BOUNCE zone stat

2025-05-05T19:22:39+00:00

The stat is always 0 now, so remove it and hardwire the user visible output to 0. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250505081138.3435992-8-hch@lst.de Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

meminfo: add a per node counter for balloon drivers

2025-03-22T05:03:13+00:00

Patch series "track memory used by balloon drivers", v2. This series introduces a way to track memory used by balloon drivers. Add a NR_BALLOON_PAGES counter to track how many pages are reclaimed by the balloon drivers. First add the accounting, then updates the balloon drivers (virtio, Hyper-V, VMware, Pseries-cmm, and Xen) to maintain this counter. The virtio, Vmware, and pseries-cmm balloon drivers utilize the balloon_compaction interface to allocate and free balloon pages. Other balloon drivers will have to maintain this counter manually. This makes the information visible in memory reporting interfaces like /proc/meminfo, show_mem, and OOM reporting. This provides admins visibility into their VM balloon sizes without requiring different virtualization tooling. Furthermore, this information is helpful when debugging an OOM inside a VM. This patch (of 4): Add NR_BALLOON_PAGES counter to track memory used by balloon drivers and expose it through /proc/meminfo and other memory reporting interfaces. [npache@redhat.com: document Balloon Meminfo entry] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/a0315ccf-f244-460e-8643-fd7388724fe5@redhat.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250314213757.244258-1-npache@redhat.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250314213757.244258-2-npache@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Nico Pache Cc: Alexander Atanasov Cc: Chengming Zhou Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Dexuan Cui Cc: Haiyang Zhang Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Juegren Gross Cc: Kanchana P Sridhar Cc: K. Y. Srinivasan Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Muchun Song Cc: Nhat Pham Cc: Oleksandr Tyshchenko Cc: Roman Gushchin Cc: Shakeel Butt Cc: Stefano Stabellini Cc: Wei Liu Cc: Michael Kelley Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: zswap: modify zswap_stored_pages to be atomic_long_t

2024-11-11T08:26:42+00:00

For zswap_store() to support large folios, we need to be able to do a batch update of zswap_stored_pages upon successful store of all pages in the folio. For this, we need to add folio_nr_pages(), which returns a long, to zswap_stored_pages. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241001053222.6944-6-kanchana.p.sridhar@intel.com Signed-off-by: Kanchana P Sridhar Acked-by: Yosry Ahmed Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Reviewed-by: Nhat Pham Cc: Chengming Zhou Cc: "Huang, Ying" Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Ryan Roberts Cc: Shakeel Butt Cc: Usama Arif Cc: Wajdi Feghali Cc: "Zou, Nanhai" Cc: Barry Song <21cnbao@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: zswap: optimize zswap pool size tracking

2024-04-26T03:55:47+00:00

Profiling the munmap() of a zswapped memory region shows 60% of the total cycles currently going into updating the zswap_pool_total_size. There are three consumers of this counter: - store, to enforce the globally configured pool limit - meminfo & debugfs, to report the size to the user - shrink, to determine the batch size for each cycle Instead of aggregating everytime an entry enters or exits the zswap pool, aggregate the value from the zpools on-demand: - Stores aggregate the counter anyway upon success. Aggregating to check the limit instead is the same amount of work. - Meminfo & debugfs might benefit somewhat from a pre-aggregated counter, but aren't exactly hotpaths. - Shrinking can aggregate once for every cycle instead of doing it for every freed entry. As the shrinker might work on tens or hundreds of objects per scan cycle, this is a large reduction in aggregations. The paths that benefit dramatically are swapin, swapoff, and unmaps. There could be millions of pages being processed until somebody asks for the pool size again. This eliminates the pool size updates from those paths entirely. Top profile entries for a 24G range munmap(), before: 38.54% zswap-unmap [kernel.kallsyms] [k] zs_zpool_total_size 12.51% zswap-unmap [kernel.kallsyms] [k] zpool_get_total_size 9.10% zswap-unmap [kernel.kallsyms] [k] zswap_update_total_size 2.95% zswap-unmap [kernel.kallsyms] [k] obj_cgroup_uncharge_zswap 2.88% zswap-unmap [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __slab_free 2.86% zswap-unmap [kernel.kallsyms] [k] xas_store and after: 7.70% zswap-unmap [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __slab_free 7.16% zswap-unmap [kernel.kallsyms] [k] obj_cgroup_uncharge_zswap 6.74% zswap-unmap [kernel.kallsyms] [k] xas_store It was also briefly considered to move to a single atomic in zswap that is updated by the backends, since zswap only cares about the sum of all pools anyway. However, zram directly needs per-pool information out of zsmalloc. To keep the backend from having to update two atomics every time, I opted for the lazy aggregation instead for now. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240312153901.3441-1-hannes@cmpxchg.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner Acked-by: Yosry Ahmed Reviewed-by: Chengming Zhou Reviewed-by: Nhat Pham Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: memtest: convert to memtest_report_meminfo()

2023-08-21T20:37:47+00:00

It is better to not expose too many internal variables of memtest, add a helper memtest_report_meminfo() to show memtest results. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230808033359.174986-1-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Tomas Mudrunka Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: kill frontswap

2023-08-21T20:37:26+00:00

The only user of frontswap is zswap, and has been for a long time. Have swap call into zswap directly and remove the indirection. [hannes@cmpxchg.org: remove obsolete comment, per Yosry] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230719142832.GA932528@cmpxchg.org [fengwei.yin@intel.com: don't warn if none swapcache folio is passed to zswap_load] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230810095652.3905184-1-fengwei.yin@intel.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230717160227.GA867137@cmpxchg.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner Signed-off-by: Yin Fengwei Acked-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Acked-by: Nhat Pham Acked-by: Yosry Ahmed Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Domenico Cerasuolo Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Cc: Vitaly Wool Cc: Vlastimil Babka Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: Add support for unaccepted memory

2023-06-06T14:38:22+00:00

UEFI Specification version 2.9 introduces the concept of memory acceptance. Some Virtual Machine platforms, such as Intel TDX or AMD SEV-SNP, require memory to be accepted before it can be used by the guest. Accepting happens via a protocol specific to the Virtual Machine platform. There are several ways the kernel can deal with unaccepted memory: 1. Accept all the memory during boot. It is easy to implement and it doesn't have runtime cost once the system is booted. The downside is very long boot time. Accept can be parallelized to multiple CPUs to keep it manageable (i.e. via DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT), but it tends to saturate memory bandwidth and does not scale beyond the point. 2. Accept a block of memory on the first use. It requires more infrastructure and changes in page allocator to make it work, but it provides good boot time. On-demand memory accept means latency spikes every time kernel steps onto a new memory block. The spikes will go away once workload data set size gets stabilized or all memory gets accepted. 3. Accept all memory in background. Introduce a thread (or multiple) that gets memory accepted proactively. It will minimize time the system experience latency spikes on memory allocation while keeping low boot time. This approach cannot function on its own. It is an extension of #2: background memory acceptance requires functional scheduler, but the page allocator may need to tap into unaccepted memory before that. The downside of the approach is that these threads also steal CPU cycles and memory bandwidth from the user's workload and may hurt user experience. Implement #1 and #2 for now. #2 is the default. Some workloads may want to use #1 with accept_memory=eager in kernel command line. #3 can be implemented later based on user's demands. Support of unaccepted memory requires a few changes in core-mm code: - memblock accepts memory on allocation. It serves early boot memory allocations and doesn't limit them to pre-accepted pool of memory. - page allocator accepts memory on the first allocation of the page. When kernel runs out of accepted memory, it accepts memory until the high watermark is reached. It helps to minimize fragmentation. EFI code will provide two helpers if the platform supports unaccepted memory: - accept_memory() makes a range of physical addresses accepted. - range_contains_unaccepted_memory() checks anything within the range of physical addresses requires acceptance. Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka Acked-by: Mike Rapoport # memblock Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230606142637.5171-2-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com

mm/memtest: add results of early memtest to /proc/meminfo

2023-04-06T02:42:55+00:00

Currently the memtest results were only presented in dmesg. When running a large fleet of devices without ECC RAM it's currently not easy to do bulk monitoring for memory corruption. You have to parse dmesg, but that's a ring buffer so the error might disappear after some time. In general I do not consider dmesg to be a great API to query RAM status. In several companies I've seen such errors remain undetected and cause issues for way too long. So I think it makes sense to provide a monitoring API, so that we can safely detect and act upon them. This adds /proc/meminfo entry which can be easily used by scripts. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230321103430.7130-1-tomas.mudrunka@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Tomas Mudrunka Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Mike Rapoport (IBM) Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

proc/meminfo: fix spacing in SecPageTables

2022-11-23T02:50:44+00:00

SecPageTables has a tab after it instead of a space, this can break fragile parsers that depend on spaces after the stat names. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221117043247.133294-1-yosryahmed@google.com Fixes: ebc97a52b5d6cd5f ("mm: add NR_SECONDARY_PAGETABLE to count secondary page table uses.") Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Acked-by: Shakeel Butt Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Marc Zyngier Cc: Sean Christopherson Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton