Re: [patch v2] mm, hugetlb: include hugepages in meminfo

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Wed Mar 20 2013 - 15:52:20 EST


On Wed 20-03-13 12:07:29, David Rientjes wrote:
> mm, hugetlb: include hugepages in meminfo
>
> Particularly in oom conditions, it's troublesome that hugetlb memory is
> not displayed. All other meminfo that is emitted will not add up to what
> is expected, and there is no artifact left in the kernel log to show that
> a potentially significant amount of memory is actually allocated as
> hugepages which are not available to be reclaimed.
>
> Booting with hugepages=8192 on the command line, this memory is now shown
> in oom conditions. For example, with echo m > /proc/sysrq-trigger:
>
> Node 0 hugepages_total=2048 hugepages_free=2048 hugepages_surp=0 hugepages_size=2048kB
> Node 1 hugepages_total=2048 hugepages_free=2048 hugepages_surp=0 hugepages_size=2048kB
> Node 2 hugepages_total=2048 hugepages_free=2048 hugepages_surp=0 hugepages_size=2048kB
> Node 3 hugepages_total=2048 hugepages_free=2048 hugepages_surp=0 hugepages_size=2048kB
>
> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thank you!

> ---
> include/linux/hugetlb.h | 4 ++++
> mm/hugetlb.c | 15 +++++++++++++++
> mm/page_alloc.c | 3 +++
> 3 files changed, 22 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/hugetlb.h b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
> --- a/include/linux/hugetlb.h
> +++ b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
> @@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ void __unmap_hugepage_range(struct mmu_gather *tlb, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> int hugetlb_prefault(struct address_space *, struct vm_area_struct *);
> void hugetlb_report_meminfo(struct seq_file *);
> int hugetlb_report_node_meminfo(int, char *);
> +void hugetlb_show_meminfo(void);
> unsigned long hugetlb_total_pages(void);
> int hugetlb_fault(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> unsigned long address, unsigned int flags);
> @@ -114,6 +115,9 @@ static inline void hugetlb_report_meminfo(struct seq_file *m)
> {
> }
> #define hugetlb_report_node_meminfo(n, buf) 0
> +static inline void hugetlb_show_meminfo(void)
> +{
> +}
> #define follow_huge_pmd(mm, addr, pmd, write) NULL
> #define follow_huge_pud(mm, addr, pud, write) NULL
> #define prepare_hugepage_range(file, addr, len) (-EINVAL)
> diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
> --- a/mm/hugetlb.c
> +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
> @@ -2121,6 +2121,21 @@ int hugetlb_report_node_meminfo(int nid, char *buf)
> nid, h->surplus_huge_pages_node[nid]);
> }
>
> +void hugetlb_show_meminfo(void)
> +{
> + struct hstate *h;
> + int nid;
> +
> + for_each_node_state(nid, N_MEMORY)
> + for_each_hstate(h)
> + pr_info("Node %d hugepages_total=%u hugepages_free=%u hugepages_surp=%u hugepages_size=%lukB\n",
> + nid,
> + h->nr_huge_pages_node[nid],
> + h->free_huge_pages_node[nid],
> + h->surplus_huge_pages_node[nid],
> + 1UL << (huge_page_order(h) + PAGE_SHIFT - 10));
> +}
> +
> /* Return the number pages of memory we physically have, in PAGE_SIZE units. */
> unsigned long hugetlb_total_pages(void)
> {
> diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> @@ -58,6 +58,7 @@
> #include <linux/prefetch.h>
> #include <linux/migrate.h>
> #include <linux/page-debug-flags.h>
> +#include <linux/hugetlb.h>
> #include <linux/sched/rt.h>
>
> #include <asm/tlbflush.h>
> @@ -3105,6 +3106,8 @@ void show_free_areas(unsigned int filter)
> printk("= %lukB\n", K(total));
> }
>
> + hugetlb_show_meminfo();
> +
> printk("%ld total pagecache pages\n", global_page_state(NR_FILE_PAGES));
>
> show_swap_cache_info();
>
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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