From: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
To: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>, Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 1/4] mm: add NR_SECONDARY_PAGETABLE to count secondary page table uses.
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2022 16:03:02 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJD7tkYE+pZdk=-psEP_Rq_1CmDjY7Go+s1LXm-ctryWvUdgLA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YsdJPeVOqlj4cf2a@google.com>
Thanks for taking another look at this!
On Thu, Jul 7, 2022 at 1:59 PM Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jun 28, 2022, Yosry Ahmed wrote:
> > We keep track of several kernel memory stats (total kernel memory, page
> > tables, stack, vmalloc, etc) on multiple levels (global, per-node,
> > per-memcg, etc). These stats give insights to users to how much memory
> > is used by the kernel and for what purposes.
> >
> > Currently, memory used by kvm mmu is not accounted in any of those
>
> Nit, capitalize KVM (mainly to be consistent).
>
> > @@ -1085,6 +1086,9 @@ KernelStack
> > Memory consumed by the kernel stacks of all tasks
> > 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.
>
> Nit, this line has a tab instead of eight spaces. Not sure if it actually matters,
> there are plenty of tabs elsewhere in the file, but all the entries in this block
> use only spaces.
>
Will fix it.
> > diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h
> > index aab70355d64f3..13190d298c986 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/mmzone.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h
> > @@ -216,6 +216,7 @@ enum node_stat_item {
> > NR_KERNEL_SCS_KB, /* measured in KiB */
> > #endif
> > NR_PAGETABLE, /* used for pagetables */
> > + NR_SECONDARY_PAGETABLE, /* secondary pagetables, e.g. kvm shadow pagetables */
>
> Nit, s/kvm/KVM, and drop the "shadow", which might be misinterpreted as saying KVM
> pagetables are only accounted when KVM is using shadow paging. KVM's usage of "shadow"
> is messy, so I totally understand why you included it, but in this case it's unnecessary
> and potentially confusing.
>
> And finally, something that's not a nit. Should this be wrapped with CONFIG_KVM
> (using IS_ENABLED() because KVM can be built as a module)? That could be removed
> if another non-KVM secondary MMU user comes along, but until then, #ifdeffery for
> stats the depend on a single feature seems to be the status quo for this code.
>
I will #ifdef the stat, but I will emphasize in the docs that is
currently *only* used for KVM so that it makes sense if users without
KVM don't see the stat at all. I will also remove the stat from
show_free_areas() in mm/page_alloc.c as it seems like none of the
#ifdefed stats show up there.
> > #ifdef CONFIG_SWAP
> > NR_SWAPCACHE,
> > #endif
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-07-12 23:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-06-28 22:09 [PATCH v6 0/4] KVM: mm: count KVM mmu usage in memory stats Yosry Ahmed
2022-06-28 22:09 ` [PATCH v6 1/4] mm: add NR_SECONDARY_PAGETABLE to count secondary page table uses Yosry Ahmed
2022-06-29 10:29 ` Marc Zyngier
2022-07-07 20:59 ` Sean Christopherson
2022-07-12 23:03 ` Yosry Ahmed [this message]
2022-07-12 23:05 ` Sean Christopherson
2022-07-18 18:26 ` Yosry Ahmed
2022-08-08 20:06 ` Yosry Ahmed
2022-08-15 9:18 ` Yosry Ahmed
2022-08-15 15:13 ` Johannes Weiner
2022-08-15 15:39 ` Yosry Ahmed
2022-08-17 17:25 ` Andrew Morton
2022-08-17 17:24 ` Andrew Morton
2022-08-17 22:27 ` Yosry Ahmed
2022-08-23 0:04 ` Yosry Ahmed
2022-08-23 0:08 ` Andrew Morton
2022-06-28 22:09 ` [PATCH v6 2/4] KVM: mmu: add a helper to account memory used by KVM MMU Yosry Ahmed
2022-06-29 10:30 ` Marc Zyngier
2022-07-07 21:08 ` Sean Christopherson
2022-07-12 23:03 ` Yosry Ahmed
2022-06-28 22:09 ` [PATCH v6 3/4] KVM: x86/mmu: count KVM mmu usage in secondary pagetable stats Yosry Ahmed
2022-07-07 21:11 ` Sean Christopherson
2022-06-28 22:09 ` [PATCH v6 4/4] KVM: arm64/mmu: count KVM s2 " Yosry Ahmed
2022-06-29 10:30 ` Marc Zyngier
2022-06-30 21:01 ` [PATCH v6 0/4] KVM: mm: count KVM mmu usage in memory stats Yosry Ahmed
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