Re: [PATCH v6 1/4] mm: add NR_SECONDARY_PAGETABLE to count secondary page table uses.

[Yosry Ahmed]

Thanks for taking another look at this!

On Thu, Jul 7, 2022 at 1:59 PM Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jun 28, 2022, Yosry Ahmed wrote:
> > We keep track of several kernel memory stats (total kernel memory, page
> > tables, stack, vmalloc, etc) on multiple levels (global, per-node,
> > per-memcg, etc). These stats give insights to users to how much memory
> > is used by the kernel and for what purposes.
> >
> > Currently, memory used by kvm mmu is not accounted in any of those
>
> Nit, capitalize KVM (mainly to be consistent).
>
> > @@ -1085,6 +1086,9 @@ KernelStack
> >                Memory consumed by the kernel stacks of all tasks
> >  PageTables
> >                Memory consumed by userspace page tables
> > +SecPageTables
> > +              Memory consumed by secondary page tables, this currently
> > +           currently includes KVM mmu allocations on x86 and arm64.
>
> Nit, this line has a tab instead of eight spaces.  Not sure if it actually matters,
> there are plenty of tabs elsewhere in the file, but all the entries in this block
> use only spaces.
>

Will fix it.

> > diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h
> > index aab70355d64f3..13190d298c986 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/mmzone.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h
> > @@ -216,6 +216,7 @@ enum node_stat_item {
> >       NR_KERNEL_SCS_KB,       /* measured in KiB */
> >  #endif
> >       NR_PAGETABLE,           /* used for pagetables */
> > +     NR_SECONDARY_PAGETABLE, /* secondary pagetables, e.g. kvm shadow pagetables */
>
> Nit, s/kvm/KVM, and drop the "shadow", which might be misinterpreted as saying KVM
> pagetables are only accounted when KVM is using shadow paging.  KVM's usage of "shadow"
> is messy, so I totally understand why you included it, but in this case it's unnecessary
> and potentially confusing.
>
> And finally, something that's not a nit.  Should this be wrapped with CONFIG_KVM
> (using IS_ENABLED() because KVM can be built as a module)?  That could be removed
> if another non-KVM secondary MMU user comes along, but until then, #ifdeffery for
> stats the depend on a single feature seems to be the status quo for this code.
>

I will #ifdef the stat, but I will emphasize in the docs that is
currently *only* used for KVM so that it makes sense if users without
KVM don't see the stat at all. I will also remove the stat from
show_free_areas() in mm/page_alloc.c as it seems like none of the
#ifdefed stats show up there.

> >  #ifdef CONFIG_SWAP
> >       NR_SWAPCACHE,
> >  #endif