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@@ -688,6 +688,7 @@ files are there, and which are missing.
============ ===============================================================
File Content
============ ===============================================================
+ allocinfo Memory allocations profiling information
apm Advanced power management info
bootconfig Kernel command line obtained from boot config,
and, if there were kernel parameters from the
@@ -953,6 +954,35 @@ also be allocatable although a lot of filesystem metadata may have to be
reclaimed to achieve this.
+allocinfo
+~~~~~~~~~
+
+Provides information about memory allocations at all locations in the code
+base. Each allocation in the code is identified by its source file, line
+number, module (if originates from a loadable module) and the function calling
+the allocation. The number of bytes allocated and number of calls at each
+location are reported. The first line indicates the version of the file, the
+second line is the header listing fields in the file.
+
+Example output.
+
+::
+
+ > tail -n +3 /proc/allocinfo | sort -rn
+ 127664128 31168 mm/page_ext.c:270 func:alloc_page_ext
+ 56373248 4737 mm/slub.c:2259 func:alloc_slab_page
+ 14880768 3633 mm/readahead.c:247 func:page_cache_ra_unbounded
+ 14417920 3520 mm/mm_init.c:2530 func:alloc_large_system_hash
+ 13377536 234 block/blk-mq.c:3421 func:blk_mq_alloc_rqs
+ 11718656 2861 mm/filemap.c:1919 func:__filemap_get_folio
+ 9192960 2800 kernel/fork.c:307 func:alloc_thread_stack_node
+ 4206592 4 net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c:2567 func:nf_ct_alloc_hashtable
+ 4136960 1010 drivers/staging/ctagmod/ctagmod.c:20 [ctagmod] func:ctagmod_start
+ 3940352 962 mm/memory.c:4214 func:alloc_anon_folio
+ 2894464 22613 fs/kernfs/dir.c:615 func:__kernfs_new_node
+ ...
+
+
meminfo
~~~~~~~
@@ -1110,8 +1140,8 @@ KernelStack
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.
+ Memory consumed by secondary page tables, this currently includes
+ KVM mmu and IOMMU allocations on x86 and arm64.
NFS_Unstable
Always zero. Previous counted pages which had been written to
the server, but has not been committed to stable storage.