mm: oom analysis: add shmem vmstat

Recently we encountered OOM problems due to memory use of the GEM cache. Generally a large amuont of Shmem/Tmpfs pages tend to create a memory shortage problem. We often use the following calculation to determine the amount of shmem pages: shmem = NR_ACTIVE_ANON + NR_INACTIVE_ANON - NR_ANON_PAGES however the expression does not consider isolated and mlocked pages. This patch adds explicit accounting for pages used by shmem and tmpfs. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mariux64 · Sep 22, 2009 · 4b02108 · 4b02108
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diff --git a/drivers/base/node.c b/drivers/base/node.c
@@ -85,6 +85,7 @@ static ssize_t node_read_meminfo(struct sys_device * dev,
 		       "Node %d FilePages:      %8lu kB\n"
 		       "Node %d Mapped:         %8lu kB\n"
 		       "Node %d AnonPages:      %8lu kB\n"
+		       "Node %d Shmem:          %8lu kB\n"
 		       "Node %d KernelStack:    %8lu kB\n"
 		       "Node %d PageTables:     %8lu kB\n"
 		       "Node %d NFS_Unstable:   %8lu kB\n"
@@ -117,6 +118,7 @@ static ssize_t node_read_meminfo(struct sys_device * dev,
 		       nid, K(node_page_state(nid, NR_FILE_PAGES)),
 		       nid, K(node_page_state(nid, NR_FILE_MAPPED)),
 		       nid, K(node_page_state(nid, NR_ANON_PAGES)),
+		       nid, K(node_page_state(nid, NR_SHMEM)),
 		       nid, node_page_state(nid, NR_KERNEL_STACK) *
 				THREAD_SIZE / 1024,
 		       nid, K(node_page_state(nid, NR_PAGETABLE)),

diff --git a/fs/proc/meminfo.c b/fs/proc/meminfo.c
@@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ static int meminfo_proc_show(struct seq_file *m, void *v)
 		"Writeback:      %8lu kB\n"
 		"AnonPages:      %8lu kB\n"
 		"Mapped:         %8lu kB\n"
+		"Shmem:          %8lu kB\n"
 		"Slab:           %8lu kB\n"
 		"SReclaimable:   %8lu kB\n"
 		"SUnreclaim:     %8lu kB\n"
@@ -125,6 +126,7 @@ static int meminfo_proc_show(struct seq_file *m, void *v)
 		K(global_page_state(NR_WRITEBACK)),
 		K(global_page_state(NR_ANON_PAGES)),
 		K(global_page_state(NR_FILE_MAPPED)),
+		K(global_page_state(NR_SHMEM)),
 		K(global_page_state(NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE) +
 				global_page_state(NR_SLAB_UNRECLAIMABLE)),
 		K(global_page_state(NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE)),

diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h
@@ -100,6 +100,7 @@ enum zone_stat_item {
 	NR_BOUNCE,
 	NR_VMSCAN_WRITE,
 	NR_WRITEBACK_TEMP,	/* Writeback using temporary buffers */
+	NR_SHMEM,		/* shmem pages (included tmpfs/GEM pages) */
 #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
 	NUMA_HIT,		/* allocated in intended node */
 	NUMA_MISS,		/* allocated in non intended node */

diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
@@ -119,6 +119,8 @@ void __remove_from_page_cache(struct page *page)
 	page->mapping = NULL;
 	mapping->nrpages--;
 	__dec_zone_page_state(page, NR_FILE_PAGES);
+	if (PageSwapBacked(page))
+		__dec_zone_page_state(page, NR_SHMEM);
 	BUG_ON(page_mapped(page));
 
 	/*
@@ -431,6 +433,8 @@ int add_to_page_cache_locked(struct page *page, struct address_space *mapping,
 		if (likely(!error)) {
 			mapping->nrpages++;
 			__inc_zone_page_state(page, NR_FILE_PAGES);
+			if (PageSwapBacked(page))
+				__inc_zone_page_state(page, NR_SHMEM);
 			spin_unlock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
 		} else {
 			page->mapping = NULL;

diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c
@@ -312,7 +312,10 @@ static int migrate_page_move_mapping(struct address_space *mapping,
 	 */
 	__dec_zone_page_state(page, NR_FILE_PAGES);
 	__inc_zone_page_state(newpage, NR_FILE_PAGES);
-
+	if (PageSwapBacked(page)) {
+		__dec_zone_page_state(page, NR_SHMEM);
+		__inc_zone_page_state(newpage, NR_SHMEM);
+	}
 	spin_unlock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
 
 	return 0;

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -2139,7 +2139,7 @@ void show_free_areas(void)
 		" unevictable:%lu"
 		" dirty:%lu writeback:%lu unstable:%lu buffer:%lu\n"
 		" free:%lu slab_reclaimable:%lu slab_unreclaimable:%lu\n"
-		" mapped:%lu pagetables:%lu bounce:%lu\n",
+		" mapped:%lu shmem:%lu pagetables:%lu bounce:%lu\n",
 		global_page_state(NR_ACTIVE_ANON),
 		global_page_state(NR_ACTIVE_FILE),
 		global_page_state(NR_INACTIVE_ANON),
@@ -2153,6 +2153,7 @@ void show_free_areas(void)
 		global_page_state(NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE),
 		global_page_state(NR_SLAB_UNRECLAIMABLE),
 		global_page_state(NR_FILE_MAPPED),
+		global_page_state(NR_SHMEM),
 		global_page_state(NR_PAGETABLE),
 		global_page_state(NR_BOUNCE));
 
@@ -2175,6 +2176,7 @@ void show_free_areas(void)
 			" dirty:%lukB"
 			" writeback:%lukB"
 			" mapped:%lukB"
+			" shmem:%lukB"
 			" slab_reclaimable:%lukB"
 			" slab_unreclaimable:%lukB"
 			" kernel_stack:%lukB"
@@ -2200,6 +2202,7 @@ void show_free_areas(void)
 			K(zone_page_state(zone, NR_FILE_DIRTY)),
 			K(zone_page_state(zone, NR_WRITEBACK)),
 			K(zone_page_state(zone, NR_FILE_MAPPED)),
+			K(zone_page_state(zone, NR_SHMEM)),
 			K(zone_page_state(zone, NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE)),
 			K(zone_page_state(zone, NR_SLAB_UNRECLAIMABLE)),
 			zone_page_state(zone, NR_KERNEL_STACK) *

diff --git a/mm/vmstat.c b/mm/vmstat.c
@@ -644,7 +644,7 @@ static const char * const vmstat_text[] = {
 	"nr_bounce",
 	"nr_vmscan_write",
 	"nr_writeback_temp",
-
+	"nr_shmem",
 #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
 	"numa_hit",
 	"numa_miss",