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authorHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>2005-10-29 18:16:18 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2005-10-29 21:40:39 -0700
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[PATCH] mm: update_hiwaters just in time
update_mem_hiwater has attracted various criticisms, in particular from those concerned with mm scalability. Originally it was called whenever rss or total_vm got raised. Then many of those callsites were replaced by a timer tick call from account_system_time. Now Frank van Maarseveen reports that to be found inadequate. How about this? Works for Frank. Replace update_mem_hiwater, a poor combination of two unrelated ops, by macros update_hiwater_rss and update_hiwater_vm. Don't attempt to keep mm->hiwater_rss up to date at timer tick, nor every time we raise rss (usually by 1): those are hot paths. Do the opposite, update only when about to lower rss (usually by many), or just before final accounting in do_exit. Handle mm->hiwater_vm in the same way, though it's much less of an issue. Demand that whoever collects these hiwater statistics do the work of taking the maximum with rss or total_vm. And there has been no collector of these hiwater statistics in the tree. The new convention needs an example, so match Frank's usage by adding a VmPeak line above VmSize to /proc/<pid>/status, and also a VmHWM line above VmRSS (High-Water-Mark or High-Water-Memory). There was a particular anomaly during mremap move, that hiwater_vm might be captured too high. A fleeting such anomaly remains, but it's quickly corrected now, whereas before it would stick. What locking? None: if the app is racy then these statistics will be racy, it's not worth any overhead to make them exact. But whenever it suits, hiwater_vm is updated under exclusive mmap_sem, and hiwater_rss under page_table_lock (for now) or with preemption disabled (later on): without going to any trouble, minimize the time between reading current values and updating, to minimize those occasions when a racing thread bumps a count up and back down in between. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/mremap.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/mremap.c12
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/mremap.c b/mm/mremap.c
index 318eea5467a0..ccf456477020 100644
--- a/mm/mremap.c
+++ b/mm/mremap.c
@@ -167,6 +167,7 @@ static unsigned long move_vma(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
unsigned long new_pgoff;
unsigned long moved_len;
unsigned long excess = 0;
+ unsigned long hiwater_vm;
int split = 0;
/*
@@ -205,9 +206,15 @@ static unsigned long move_vma(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
}
/*
- * if we failed to move page tables we still do total_vm increment
- * since do_munmap() will decrement it by old_len == new_len
+ * If we failed to move page tables we still do total_vm increment
+ * since do_munmap() will decrement it by old_len == new_len.
+ *
+ * Since total_vm is about to be raised artificially high for a
+ * moment, we need to restore high watermark afterwards: if stats
+ * are taken meanwhile, total_vm and hiwater_vm appear too high.
+ * If this were a serious issue, we'd add a flag to do_munmap().
*/
+ hiwater_vm = mm->hiwater_vm;
mm->total_vm += new_len >> PAGE_SHIFT;
vm_stat_account(mm, vma->vm_flags, vma->vm_file, new_len>>PAGE_SHIFT);
@@ -216,6 +223,7 @@ static unsigned long move_vma(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
vm_unacct_memory(excess >> PAGE_SHIFT);
excess = 0;
}
+ mm->hiwater_vm = hiwater_vm;
/* Restore VM_ACCOUNT if one or two pieces of vma left */
if (excess) {