mm: add /proc/pid/smaps_rollup

/proc/pid/smaps_rollup is a new proc file that improves the performance
of user programs that determine aggregate memory statistics (e.g., total
PSS) of a process.

Android regularly "samples" the memory usage of various processes in
order to balance its memory pool sizes.  This sampling process involves
opening /proc/pid/smaps and summing certain fields.  For very large
processes, sampling memory use this way can take several hundred
milliseconds, due mostly to the overhead of the seq_printf calls in
task_mmu.c.

smaps_rollup improves the situation.  It contains most of the fields of
/proc/pid/smaps, but instead of a set of fields for each VMA,
smaps_rollup instead contains one synthetic smaps-format entry
representing the whole process.  In the single smaps_rollup synthetic
entry, each field is the summation of the corresponding field in all of
the real-smaps VMAs.  Using a common format for smaps_rollup and smaps
allows userspace parsers to repurpose parsers meant for use with
non-rollup smaps for smaps_rollup, and it allows userspace to switch
between smaps_rollup and smaps at runtime (say, based on the
availability of smaps_rollup in a given kernel) with minimal fuss.

By using smaps_rollup instead of smaps, a caller can avoid the
significant overhead of formatting, reading, and parsing each of a large
process's potentially very numerous memory mappings.  For sampling
system_server's PSS in Android, we measured a 12x speedup, representing
a savings of several hundred milliseconds.

One alternative to a new per-process proc file would have been including
PSS information in /proc/pid/status.  We considered this option but
thought that PSS would be too expensive (by a few orders of magnitude)
to collect relative to what's already emitted as part of
/proc/pid/status, and slowing every user of /proc/pid/status for the
sake of readers that happen to want PSS feels wrong.

The code itself works by reusing the existing VMA-walking framework we
use for regular smaps generation and keeping the mem_size_stats
structure around between VMA walks instead of using a fresh one for each
VMA.  In this way, summation happens automatically.  We let seq_file
walk over the VMAs just as it does for regular smaps and just emit
nothing to the seq_file until we hit the last VMA.

Benchmarks:

    using smaps:
    iterations:1000 pid:1163 pss:220023808
    0m29.46s real 0m08.28s user 0m20.98s system

    using smaps_rollup:
    iterations:1000 pid:1163 pss:220702720
    0m04.39s real 0m00.03s user 0m04.31s system

We're using the PSS samples we collect asynchronously for
system-management tasks like fine-tuning oom_adj_score, memory use
tracking for debugging, application-level memory-use attribution, and
deciding whether we want to kill large processes during system idle
maintenance windows.  Android has been using PSS for these purposes for
a long time; as the average process VMA count has increased and and
devices become more efficiency-conscious, PSS-collection inefficiency
has started to matter more.  IMHO, it'd be a lot safer to optimize the
existing PSS-collection model, which has been fine-tuned over the years,
instead of changing the memory tracking approach entirely to work around
smaps-generation inefficiency.

Tim said:

: There are two main reasons why Android gathers PSS information:
:
: 1. Android devices can show the user the amount of memory used per
:    application via the settings app.  This is a less important use case.
:
: 2. We log PSS to help identify leaks in applications.  We have found
:    an enormous number of bugs (in the Android platform, in Google's own
:    apps, and in third-party applications) using this data.
:
: To do this, system_server (the main process in Android userspace) will
: sample the PSS of a process three seconds after it changes state (for
: example, app is launched and becomes the foreground application) and about
: every ten minutes after that.  The net result is that PSS collection is
: regularly running on at least one process in the system (usually a few
: times a minute while the screen is on, less when screen is off due to
: suspend).  PSS of a process is an incredibly useful stat to track, and we
: aren't going to get rid of it.  We've looked at some very hacky approaches
: using RSS ("take the RSS of the target process, subtract the RSS of the
: zygote process that is the parent of all Android apps") to reduce the
: accounting time, but it regularly overestimated the memory used by 20+
: percent.  Accordingly, I don't think that there's a good alternative to
: using PSS.
:
: We started looking into PSS collection performance after we noticed random
: frequency spikes while a phone's screen was off; occasionally, one of the
: CPU clusters would ramp to a high frequency because there was 200-300ms of
: constant CPU work from a single thread in the main Android userspace
: process.  The work causing the spike (which is reasonable governor
: behavior given the amount of CPU time needed) was always PSS collection.
: As a result, Android is burning more power than we should be on PSS
: collection.
:
: The other issue (and why I'm less sure about improving smaps as a
: long-term solution) is that the number of VMAs per process has increased
: significantly from release to release.  After trying to figure out why we
: were seeing these 200-300ms PSS collection times on Android O but had not
: noticed it in previous versions, we found that the number of VMAs in the
: main system process increased by 50% from Android N to Android O (from
: ~1800 to ~2700) and varying increases in every userspace process.  Android
: M to N also had an increase in the number of VMAs, although not as much.
: I'm not sure why this is increasing so much over time, but thinking about
: ASLR and ways to make ASLR better, I expect that this will continue to
: increase going forward.  I would not be surprised if we hit 5000 VMAs on
: the main Android process (system_server) by 2020.
:
: If we assume that the number of VMAs is going to increase over time, then
: doing anything we can do to reduce the overhead of each VMA during PSS
: collection seems like the right way to go, and that means outputting an
: aggregate statistic (to avoid whatever overhead there is per line in
: writing smaps and in reading each line from userspace).

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170812022148.178293-1-dancol@google.com
Signed-off-by: Daniel Colascione <dancol@google.com>
Cc: Tim Murray <timmurray@google.com>
Cc: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Sonny Rao <sonnyrao@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 134 insertions, 62 deletions

diff --git a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c b/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
index fe8f3265e877..b2330aedc63f 100644
--- a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
+++ b/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
@@ -253,6 +253,7 @@ static int proc_map_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
 	if (priv->mm)
 		mmdrop(priv->mm);
 
+	kfree(priv->rollup);
 	return seq_release_private(inode, file);
 }
 
@@ -279,6 +280,23 @@ static int is_stack(struct proc_maps_private *priv,
 		vma->vm_end >= vma->vm_mm->start_stack;
 }
 
+static void show_vma_header_prefix(struct seq_file *m,
+				   unsigned long start, unsigned long end,
+				   vm_flags_t flags, unsigned long long pgoff,
+				   dev_t dev, unsigned long ino)
+{
+	seq_setwidth(m, 25 + sizeof(void *) * 6 - 1);
+	seq_printf(m, "%08lx-%08lx %c%c%c%c %08llx %02x:%02x %lu ",
+		   start,
+		   end,
+		   flags & VM_READ ? 'r' : '-',
+		   flags & VM_WRITE ? 'w' : '-',
+		   flags & VM_EXEC ? 'x' : '-',
+		   flags & VM_MAYSHARE ? 's' : 'p',
+		   pgoff,
+		   MAJOR(dev), MINOR(dev), ino);
+}
+
 static void
 show_map_vma(struct seq_file *m, struct vm_area_struct *vma, int is_pid)
 {
@@ -301,17 +319,7 @@ show_map_vma(struct seq_file *m, struct vm_area_struct *vma, int is_pid)
 
 	start = vma->vm_start;
 	end = vma->vm_end;
-
-	seq_setwidth(m, 25 + sizeof(void *) * 6 - 1);
-	seq_printf(m, "%08lx-%08lx %c%c%c%c %08llx %02x:%02x %lu ",
-			start,
-			end,
-			flags & VM_READ ? 'r' : '-',
-			flags & VM_WRITE ? 'w' : '-',
-			flags & VM_EXEC ? 'x' : '-',
-			flags & VM_MAYSHARE ? 's' : 'p',
-			pgoff,
-			MAJOR(dev), MINOR(dev), ino);
+	show_vma_header_prefix(m, start, end, flags, pgoff, dev, ino);
 
 	/*
 	 * Print the dentry name for named mappings, and a
@@ -430,6 +438,7 @@ const struct file_operations proc_tid_maps_operations = {
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_PROC_PAGE_MONITOR
 struct mem_size_stats {
+	bool first;
 	unsigned long resident;
 	unsigned long shared_clean;
 	unsigned long shared_dirty;
@@ -443,7 +452,9 @@ struct mem_size_stats {
 	unsigned long swap;
 	unsigned long shared_hugetlb;
 	unsigned long private_hugetlb;
+	unsigned long first_vma_start;
 	u64 pss;
+	u64 pss_locked;
 	u64 swap_pss;
 	bool check_shmem_swap;
 };
@@ -719,18 +730,36 @@ void __weak arch_show_smap(struct seq_file *m, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
 
 static int show_smap(struct seq_file *m, void *v, int is_pid)
 {
+	struct proc_maps_private *priv = m->private;
 	struct vm_area_struct *vma = v;
-	struct mem_size_stats mss;
+	struct mem_size_stats mss_stack;
+	struct mem_size_stats *mss;
 	struct mm_walk smaps_walk = {
 		.pmd_entry = smaps_pte_range,
 #ifdef CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE
 		.hugetlb_entry = smaps_hugetlb_range,
 #endif
 		.mm = vma->vm_mm,
-		.private = &mss,
 	};
+	int ret = 0;
+	bool rollup_mode;
+	bool last_vma;
+
+	if (priv->rollup) {
+		rollup_mode = true;
+		mss = priv->rollup;
+		if (mss->first) {
+			mss->first_vma_start = vma->vm_start;
+			mss->first = false;
+		}
+		last_vma = !m_next_vma(priv, vma);
+	} else {
+		rollup_mode = false;
+		memset(&mss_stack, 0, sizeof(mss_stack));
+		mss = &mss_stack;
+	}
 
-	memset(&mss, 0, sizeof mss);
+	smaps_walk.private = mss;
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_SHMEM
 	if (vma->vm_file && shmem_mapping(vma->vm_file->f_mapping)) {
@@ -748,9 +777,9 @@ static int show_smap(struct seq_file *m, void *v, int is_pid)
 
 		if (!shmem_swapped || (vma->vm_flags & VM_SHARED) ||
 					!(vma->vm_flags & VM_WRITE)) {
-			mss.swap = shmem_swapped;
+			mss->swap = shmem_swapped;
 		} else {
-			mss.check_shmem_swap = true;
+			mss->check_shmem_swap = true;
 			smaps_walk.pte_hole = smaps_pte_hole;
 		}
 	}
@@ -758,54 +787,71 @@ static int show_smap(struct seq_file *m, void *v, int is_pid)
 
 	/* mmap_sem is held in m_start */
 	walk_page_vma(vma, &smaps_walk);
+	if (vma->vm_flags & VM_LOCKED)
+		mss->pss_locked += mss->pss;
+
+	if (!rollup_mode) {
+		show_map_vma(m, vma, is_pid);
+	} else if (last_vma) {
+		show_vma_header_prefix(
+			m, mss->first_vma_start, vma->vm_end, 0, 0, 0, 0);
+		seq_pad(m, ' ');
+		seq_puts(m, "[rollup]\n");
+	} else {
+		ret = SEQ_SKIP;
+	}
 
-	show_map_vma(m, vma, is_pid);
-
-	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);
-
-	arch_show_smap(m, vma);
-	show_smap_vma_flags(m, vma);
+	if (!rollup_mode)
+		seq_printf(m,
+			   "Size:           %8lu kB\n"
+			   "KernelPageSize: %8lu kB\n"
+			   "MMUPageSize:    %8lu kB\n",
+			   (vma->vm_end - vma->vm_start) >> 10,
+			   vma_kernel_pagesize(vma) >> 10,
+			   vma_mmu_pagesize(vma) >> 10);
+
+
+	if (!rollup_mode || last_vma)
+		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)));
+
+	if (!rollup_mode) {
+		arch_show_smap(m, vma);
+		show_smap_vma_flags(m, vma);
+	}
 	m_cache_vma(m, vma);
-	return 0;
+	return ret;
 }
 
 static int show_pid_smap(struct seq_file *m, void *v)
@@ -837,6 +883,25 @@ static int pid_smaps_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
 	return do_maps_open(inode, file, &proc_pid_smaps_op);
 }
 
+static int pid_smaps_rollup_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
+{
+	struct seq_file *seq;
+	struct proc_maps_private *priv;
+	int ret = do_maps_open(inode, file, &proc_pid_smaps_op);
+
+	if (ret < 0)
+		return ret;
+	seq = file->private_data;
+	priv = seq->private;
+	priv->rollup = kzalloc(sizeof(*priv->rollup), GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!priv->rollup) {
+		proc_map_release(inode, file);
+		return -ENOMEM;
+	}
+	priv->rollup->first = true;
+	return 0;
+}
+
 static int tid_smaps_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
 {
 	return do_maps_open(inode, file, &proc_tid_smaps_op);
@@ -849,6 +914,13 @@ const struct file_operations proc_pid_smaps_operations = {
 	.release	= proc_map_release,
 };
 
+const struct file_operations proc_pid_smaps_rollup_operations = {
+	.open		= pid_smaps_rollup_open,
+	.read		= seq_read,
+	.llseek		= seq_lseek,
+	.release	= proc_map_release,
+};
+
 const struct file_operations proc_tid_smaps_operations = {
 	.open		= tid_smaps_open,
 	.read		= seq_read,