From: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
To: PINTU KUMAR <pintu_agarwal@yahoo.com>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: [Help] : RSS/PSS showing 0 during smaps for Xorg
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:31:55 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.2.00.1201231125200.1677@eggly.anvils> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1327313719.76517.YahooMailNeo@web162002.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>
On Mon, 23 Jan 2012, PINTU KUMAR wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I am facing one problem for one of my kernel module for our linux mobile with kernel2.6.36.
>
> When I do cat /proc/<Xorg pid>/smaps | grep -A 11 /dev/ump , to track information for my ump module,
> we always get Rss/Pss as 0 kB as shown below:
> cat /proc/1731/smaps | grep -A 11 /dev/ump
> 414db000-415ff000 rw-s 00015000 00:12 6803 /dev/ump
> Size: 1168 kB
> Rss: 0 kB
> Pss: 0 kB
> track_rss_value = 0, iswalkcalled = 1, smap_pte_range_called = 1, swap_pte = 0, not_pte_present = 0, not_normal_page = 1
> isspecial = 0, not_special = 1, isMixedMap = 0, pfnpages_null = 0, pfnoff_flag = 0, not_cow_mapping = 1, normal_page_end = 0
>
> After tracing down the problem, I found out that during "show_smaps" in fs/proc/task_mmu.c and during call to smaps_pte_range the vm_normal_page() is always returning NULL for our /dev/ump driver.
> (smaps_pte_range() is the place where Rss/Pss information is populated)
> Thus mss->resident (Rss value) is never getting incremented.
>
> To trace the problem I added few flags during show_smaps & vm_normal_page() as shown above. The value of 1 indicates that the condition is executed.
> Thus "normal_page_end" indicates that the "vm_normal_page" has never ended successfully and always returns from
> "!is_cow_mapping()".
>
> So, I wanted to know the main cause for vm_normal_page() always returning NULL page for our ump driver.
> What is that I am missing in my driver ?
>
> Can anyone please let me know what could be the problem in our driver.
This not evidence of any problem in your driver.
vm_normal_page() returns NULL because the pages mapped by your driver
are not normal faultable and reclaimable pages, but an area of physical
memory mapped in by remap_pfn_range(), which sets the VM_PFNMAP flag.
The mm subsystem does not count such pages towards rss (or pss),
hence your 0s.
Hugh
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2012-01-23 10:15 ` [Help] : RSS/PSS showing 0 during smaps for Xorg PINTU KUMAR
2012-01-23 19:31 ` Hugh Dickins [this message]
2012-01-25 5:22 ` PINTU KUMAR
2012-01-26 0:59 ` Hugh Dickins
2012-01-30 8:42 ` PINTU KUMAR
2012-01-30 18:49 ` Hugh Dickins
2012-02-01 14:49 ` PINTU KUMAR
2012-02-02 5:20 ` Hugh Dickins
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