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authorShakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>2022-01-14 14:05:45 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2022-01-15 16:30:27 +0200
commit4e5aa1f4c2b489bc6f3ab5ca54747b18a847289d (patch)
tree33a7f3e20827383914b74e9208f97a14b8f1aab8 /Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst
parent06b2c3b08ce134c9555d91a1cf15cd03646cc287 (diff)
memcg: add per-memcg vmalloc stat
The kvmalloc* allocation functions can fallback to vmalloc allocations and more often on long running machines. In addition the kernel does have __GFP_ACCOUNT kvmalloc* calls. So, often on long running machines, the memory.stat does not tell the complete picture which type of memory is charged to the memcg. So add a per-memcg vmalloc stat. [shakeelb@google.com: page_memcg() within rcu lock, per Muchun] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211222052457.1960701-1-shakeelb@google.com [akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove cast, per Muchun] [shakeelb@google.com: remove area->page[0] checks and move to page by page accounting per Michal] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220104222341.3972772-1-shakeelb@google.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211221215336.1922823-1-shakeelb@google.com Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com> Reviewed-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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@@ -1314,6 +1314,9 @@ PAGE_SIZE multiple when read back.
sock (npn)
Amount of memory used in network transmission buffers
+ vmalloc (npn)
+ Amount of memory used for vmap backed memory.
+
shmem
Amount of cached filesystem data that is swap-backed,
such as tmpfs, shm segments, shared anonymous mmap()s