From: "prakash.sangappa" <prakash.sangappa@oracle.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-api@vger.kernel.org, mhocko@suse.com,
kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com, n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com,
drepper@gmail.com, rientjes@google.com,
Naoya Horiguchi <nao.horiguchi@gmail.com>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Add /proc/<pid>/numa_vamaps for numa node information
Date: Wed, 2 May 2018 16:43:58 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cac754ee-efb9-0259-a50b-4efa11783058@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180502143323.1c723ccb509c3497050a2e0a@linux-foundation.org>
On 05/02/2018 02:33 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 1 May 2018 22:58:06 -0700 Prakash Sangappa <prakash.sangappa@oracle.com> wrote:
>
>> For analysis purpose it is useful to have numa node information
>> corresponding mapped address ranges of the process. Currently
>> /proc/<pid>/numa_maps provides list of numa nodes from where pages are
>> allocated per VMA of the process. This is not useful if an user needs to
>> determine which numa node the mapped pages are allocated from for a
>> particular address range. It would have helped if the numa node information
>> presented in /proc/<pid>/numa_maps was broken down by VA ranges showing the
>> exact numa node from where the pages have been allocated.
>>
>> The format of /proc/<pid>/numa_maps file content is dependent on
>> /proc/<pid>/maps file content as mentioned in the manpage. i.e one line
>> entry for every VMA corresponding to entries in /proc/<pids>/maps file.
>> Therefore changing the output of /proc/<pid>/numa_maps may not be possible.
>>
>> Hence, this patch proposes adding file /proc/<pid>/numa_vamaps which will
>> provide proper break down of VA ranges by numa node id from where the mapped
>> pages are allocated. For Address ranges not having any pages mapped, a '-'
>> is printed instead of numa node id. In addition, this file will include most
>> of the other information currently presented in /proc/<pid>/numa_maps. The
>> additional information included is for convenience. If this is not
>> preferred, the patch could be modified to just provide VA range to numa node
>> information as the rest of the information is already available thru
>> /proc/<pid>/numa_maps file.
>>
>> Since the VA range to numa node information does not include page's PFN,
>> reading this file will not be restricted(i.e requiring CAP_SYS_ADMIN).
>>
>> Here is the snippet from the new file content showing the format.
>>
>> 00400000-00401000 N0=1 kernelpagesize_kB=4 mapped=1 file=/tmp/hmap2
>> 00600000-00601000 N0=1 kernelpagesize_kB=4 anon=1 dirty=1 file=/tmp/hmap2
>> 00601000-00602000 N0=1 kernelpagesize_kB=4 anon=1 dirty=1 file=/tmp/hmap2
>> 7f0215600000-7f0215800000 N0=1 kernelpagesize_kB=2048 dirty=1 file=/mnt/f1
>> 7f0215800000-7f0215c00000 - file=/mnt/f1
>> 7f0215c00000-7f0215e00000 N0=1 kernelpagesize_kB=2048 dirty=1 file=/mnt/f1
>> 7f0215e00000-7f0216200000 - file=/mnt/f1
>> ..
>> 7f0217ecb000-7f0217f20000 N0=85 kernelpagesize_kB=4 mapped=85 mapmax=51
>> file=/usr/lib64/libc-2.17.so
>> 7f0217f20000-7f0217f30000 - file=/usr/lib64/libc-2.17.so
>> 7f0217f30000-7f0217f90000 N0=96 kernelpagesize_kB=4 mapped=96 mapmax=51
>> file=/usr/lib64/libc-2.17.so
>> 7f0217f90000-7f0217fb0000 - file=/usr/lib64/libc-2.17.so
>> ..
>>
>> The 'pmap' command can be enhanced to include an option to show numa node
>> information which it can read from this new proc file. This will be a
>> follow on proposal.
> I'd like to hear rather more about the use-cases for this new
> interface. Why do people need it, what is the end-user benefit, etc?
This is mainly for debugging / performance analysis. Oracle Database
team is looking to use this information.
>> There have been couple of previous patch proposals to provide numa node
>> information based on pfn or physical address. They seem to have not made
>> progress. Also it would appear reading numa node information based on PFN
>> or physical address will require privileges(CAP_SYS_ADMIN) similar to
>> reading PFN info from /proc/<pid>/pagemap.
>>
>> See
>> https://marc.info/?t=139630938200001&r=1&w=2
>>
>> https://marc.info/?t=139718724400001&r=1&w=2
> OK, let's hope that these people will be able to provide their review,
> feedback, testing, etc. You missed a couple (Dave, Naoya).
>
>> fs/proc/base.c | 2 +
>> fs/proc/internal.h | 3 +
>> fs/proc/task_mmu.c | 299 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> Some Documentation/ updates seem appropriate. I suggest you grep the
> directory for "numa_maps" to find suitable locations.
Sure, I can update Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt file which is
where 'numa_maps' is documented.
>
> And a quick build check shows that `size fs/proc/task_mmu.o' gets quite
> a bit larger when CONFIG_SMP=n and CONFIG_NUMA=n. That seems wrong -
> please see if you can eliminate the bloat from systems which don't need
> this feature.
>
>
Ok will take a look.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-05-02 23:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-02 5:58 [RFC PATCH] Add /proc/<pid>/numa_vamaps for numa node information Prakash Sangappa
2018-05-02 21:33 ` Andrew Morton
2018-05-02 22:28 ` Dave Hansen
2018-05-02 23:17 ` prakash.sangappa
2018-05-03 8:46 ` Anshuman Khandual
2018-05-03 22:27 ` prakash.sangappa
2018-05-03 22:26 ` Dave Hansen
2018-05-07 23:22 ` prakash.sangappa
2018-05-08 0:05 ` Dave Hansen
2018-05-08 1:16 ` prakash.sangappa
2018-05-09 23:31 ` Dave Hansen
2018-09-12 20:42 ` prakash.sangappa
2018-09-12 20:57 ` prakash.sangappa
2018-09-14 1:33 ` Jann Horn
2018-09-14 6:21 ` Michal Hocko
2018-09-14 12:49 ` Jann Horn
2018-09-14 13:49 ` Michal Hocko
2018-09-14 18:07 ` Prakash Sangappa
2018-09-14 18:14 ` Jann Horn
2018-05-02 23:43 ` prakash.sangappa [this message]
2018-05-03 8:57 ` Michal Hocko
2018-05-03 22:37 ` prakash.sangappa
2018-05-04 11:10 ` Michal Hocko
2018-05-03 18:03 ` Christopher Lameter
2018-05-03 22:39 ` prakash.sangappa
2018-05-04 11:12 ` Michal Hocko
2018-05-04 16:18 ` Prakash Sangappa
2018-05-10 7:42 ` Michal Hocko
2018-05-10 16:00 ` Prakash Sangappa
2018-05-11 6:39 ` Michal Hocko
2018-05-04 14:57 ` Christopher Lameter
2018-05-04 16:27 ` Prakash Sangappa
2018-05-07 14:47 ` Christopher Lameter
2018-05-07 22:50 ` prakash.sangappa
2018-05-08 12:53 ` Christopher Lameter
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