[PATCH 1/1] mm: Export a function to read vm_committed_as

* [PATCH 1/1] mm: Export a function to read vm_committed_as
@ 2012-11-11  2:25 K. Y. Srinivasan
  2012-11-11  2:35 ` David Rientjes
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 12+ messages in thread
From: K. Y. Srinivasan @ 2012-11-11  2:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: gregkh, linux-kernel, devel, olaf, apw, andi, akpm, linux-mm,
	kamezawa.hiroyuki, mhocko, hannes, yinghan
  Cc: K. Y. Srinivasan

It may be useful to be able to access vm_committed_as from device
drivers. On the Hyper-V platform, the host has a policy engine to balance
the available physical memory amongst all competing virtual machines
hosted on a given node. This policy engine is driven by a number of metrics
including the memory pressure reported by the guests. The balloon driver
for Linux on Hyper-V uses this function to report memory pressure back to
the host.

Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
---
 include/linux/mman.h |    2 ++
 mm/mmap.c            |   11 +++++++++++
 mm/nommu.c           |   11 +++++++++++
 3 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/mman.h b/include/linux/mman.h
index d09dde1..d53dc3d 100644
--- a/include/linux/mman.h
+++ b/include/linux/mman.h
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ extern int sysctl_overcommit_memory;
 extern int sysctl_overcommit_ratio;
 extern struct percpu_counter vm_committed_as;
 
+unsigned long read_vm_committed_as(void);
+
 static inline void vm_acct_memory(long pages)
 {
 	percpu_counter_add(&vm_committed_as, pages);
diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c
index 2d94235..e527239 100644
--- a/mm/mmap.c
+++ b/mm/mmap.c
@@ -89,6 +89,17 @@ int sysctl_max_map_count __read_mostly = DEFAULT_MAX_MAP_COUNT;
 struct percpu_counter vm_committed_as ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp;
 
 /*
+ * A wrapper to read vm_committed_as that can be used by external modules.
+ */
+
+unsigned long read_vm_committed_as(void)
+{
+	return percpu_counter_read_positive(&vm_committed_as);
+}
+
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(read_vm_committed_as);
+
+/*
  * Check that a process has enough memory to allocate a new virtual
  * mapping. 0 means there is enough memory for the allocation to
  * succeed and -ENOMEM implies there is not.
diff --git a/mm/nommu.c b/mm/nommu.c
index 45131b4..dbbd0aa 100644
--- a/mm/nommu.c
+++ b/mm/nommu.c
@@ -66,6 +66,17 @@ int heap_stack_gap = 0;
 
 atomic_long_t mmap_pages_allocated;
 
+/*
+ * A wrapper to read vm_committed_as that can be used by external modules.
+ */
+
+unsigned long read_vm_committed_as(void)
+{
+	return percpu_counter_read_positive(&vm_committed_as);
+}
+
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(read_vm_committed_as);
+
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(mem_map);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(num_physpages);
 
-- 
1.7.4.1


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