proc/ksm: add ksm stats to /proc/pid/smaps
authorStefan Roesch <shr@devkernel.io>
Tue, 22 Aug 2023 18:05:39 +0000 (11:05 -0700)
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Sat, 2 Sep 2023 22:17:33 +0000 (15:17 -0700)
commit8b47933544a68a62a9c4e35f8d8a6d2a2c935823
treed45ac28aba32d38c705178fb91d245e8e76d9467
parent6885938c349c14b277305cd1129e7eb14f3e2c55
proc/ksm: add ksm stats to /proc/pid/smaps

With madvise and prctl KSM can be enabled for different VMA's.  Once it is
enabled we can query how effective KSM is overall.  However we cannot
easily query if an individual VMA benefits from KSM.

This commit adds a KSM section to the /prod/<pid>/smaps file.  It reports
how many of the pages are KSM pages.  Note that KSM-placed zeropages are
not included, only actual KSM pages.

Here is a typical output:

7f420a000000-7f421a000000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
Size:             262144 kB
KernelPageSize:        4 kB
MMUPageSize:           4 kB
Rss:               51212 kB
Pss:                8276 kB
Shared_Clean:        172 kB
Shared_Dirty:      42996 kB
Private_Clean:       196 kB
Private_Dirty:      7848 kB
Referenced:        15388 kB
Anonymous:         51212 kB
KSM:               41376 kB
LazyFree:              0 kB
AnonHugePages:         0 kB
ShmemPmdMapped:        0 kB
FilePmdMapped:         0 kB
Shared_Hugetlb:        0 kB
Private_Hugetlb:       0 kB
Swap:             202016 kB
SwapPss:            3882 kB
Locked:                0 kB
THPeligible:    0
ProtectionKey:         0
ksm_state:          0
ksm_skip_base:      0
ksm_skip_count:     0
VmFlags: rd wr mr mw me nr mg anon

This information also helps with the following workflow:
- First enable KSM for all the VMA's of a process with prctl.
- Then analyze with the above smaps report which VMA's benefit the most
- Change the application (if possible) to add the corresponding madvise
calls for the VMA's that benefit the most

[shr@devkernel.io: v5]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230823170107.1457915-1-shr@devkernel.io
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230822180539.1424843-1-shr@devkernel.io
Signed-off-by: Stefan Roesch <shr@devkernel.io>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst
fs/proc/task_mmu.c