From nobody Mon Feb 9 08:29:16 2026 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E28B7C77B73 for ; Mon, 22 May 2023 11:11:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S233033AbjEVLLs (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 May 2023 07:11:48 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:54742 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S231429AbjEVLLO (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 May 2023 07:11:14 -0400 Received: from ubuntu20 (unknown [193.203.214.57]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 882A4358C for ; Mon, 22 May 2023 04:06:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: by ubuntu20 (Postfix, from userid 1003) id ECF0DE1EF6; Mon, 22 May 2023 18:54:03 +0800 (CST) From: Yang Yang To: akpm@linux-foundation.org, david@redhat.com Cc: yang.yang29@zte.com.cn, imbrenda@linux.ibm.com, jiang.xuexin@zte.com.cn, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, ran.xiaokai@zte.com.cn, xu.xin.sc@gmail.com, xu.xin16@zte.com.cn Subject: [PATCH v8 5/6] ksm: update the calculation of KSM profit Date: Mon, 22 May 2023 18:54:02 +0800 Message-Id: <20230522105402.4225-1-yang.yang29@zte.com.cn> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.25.1 In-Reply-To: <202305221842587200002@zte.com.cn> References: <202305221842587200002@zte.com.cn> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" From: xu xin When use_zero_pages is enabled, the calculation of ksm profit is not correct because ksm zero pages is not counted in. So update the calculation of KSM profit including the documentation. Signed-off-by: xu xin Cc: Xiaokai Ran Cc: Yang Yang Cc: Jiang Xuexin Cc: Claudio Imbrenda Cc: David Hildenbrand --- Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst | 18 +++++++++++------- mm/ksm.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst b/Documentation/admin-gui= de/mm/ksm.rst index 019dc40a0d3c..dde7c152f0ae 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst @@ -204,21 +204,25 @@ several times, which are unprofitable memory consumed. 1) How to determine whether KSM save memory or consume memory in system-wi= de range? Here is a simple approximate calculation for reference:: =20 - general_profit =3D~ pages_sharing * sizeof(page) - (all_rmap_items) * + general_profit =3D~ ksm_saved_pages * sizeof(page) - (all_rmap_items) * sizeof(rmap_item); =20 - where all_rmap_items can be easily obtained by summing ``pages_sharing`= `, - ``pages_shared``, ``pages_unshared`` and ``pages_volatile``. + where ksm_saved_pages equals to the sum of ``pages_sharing`` + + ``ksm_zero_pages`` of the system, and all_rmap_items can be easily + obtained by summing ``pages_sharing``, ``pages_shared``, ``pages_unshar= ed`` + and ``pages_volatile``. =20 2) The KSM profit inner a single process can be similarly obtained by the following approximate calculation:: =20 - process_profit =3D~ ksm_merging_pages * sizeof(page) - + process_profit =3D~ ksm_saved_pages * sizeof(page) - ksm_rmap_items * sizeof(rmap_item). =20 - where ksm_merging_pages is shown under the directory ``/proc//``, - and ksm_rmap_items is shown in ``/proc//ksm_stat``. The process pr= ofit - is also shown in ``/proc//ksm_stat`` as ksm_process_profit. + where ksm_saved_pages equals to the sum of ``ksm_merging_pages`` and + ``ksm_zero_pages``, both of which are shown under the directory + ``/proc//ksm_stat``, and ksm_rmap_items is alos shown in + ``/proc//ksm_stat``. The process profit is also shown in + ``/proc//ksm_stat`` as ksm_process_profit. =20 From the perspective of application, a high ratio of ``ksm_rmap_items`` to ``ksm_merging_pages`` means a bad madvise-applied policy, so developers or diff --git a/mm/ksm.c b/mm/ksm.c index 4e510f5c5938..d23a240c2519 100644 --- a/mm/ksm.c +++ b/mm/ksm.c @@ -3085,7 +3085,7 @@ static void wait_while_offlining(void) #ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS long ksm_process_profit(struct mm_struct *mm) { - return mm->ksm_merging_pages * PAGE_SIZE - + return (long)(mm->ksm_merging_pages + mm->ksm_zero_pages) * PAGE_SIZE - mm->ksm_rmap_items * sizeof(struct ksm_rmap_item); } #endif /* CONFIG_PROC_FS */ --=20 2.15.2