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mm: /proc/sys/vm/stat_refresh to force vmstat update

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Provide /proc/sys/vm/stat_refresh to force an immediate update of
per-cpu into global vmstats: useful to avoid a sleep(2) or whatever
before checking counts when testing.  Originally added to work around a
bug which left counts stranded indefinitely on a cpu going idle (an
inaccuracy magnified when small below-batch numbers represent "huge"
amounts of memory), but I believe that bug is now fixed: nonetheless,
this is still a useful knob.

Its schedule_on_each_cpu() is probably too expensive just to fold into
reading /proc/meminfo itself: give this mode 0600 to prevent abuse.
Allow a write or a read to do the same: nothing to read, but "grep -h
Shmem /proc/sys/vm/stat_refresh /proc/meminfo" is convenient.  Oh, and
since global_page_state() itself is careful to disguise any underflow as
0, hack in an "Invalid argument" and pr_warn() if a counter is negative
after the refresh - this helped to fix a misaccounting of
NR_ISOLATED_FILE in my migration code.

But on recent kernels, I find that NR_ALLOC_BATCH and NR_PAGES_SCANNED
often go negative some of the time.  I have not yet worked out why, but
have no evidence that it's actually harmful.  Punt for the moment by
just ignoring the anomaly on those.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Andres Lagar-Cavilla <andreslc@google.com>
Cc: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linaro.org>
Cc: Ning Qu <quning@gmail.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Andres Lagar-Cavilla <andreslc@google.com>
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Hugh Dickins
2016-05-19 17:12:50 -07:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 9e18eb2935
commit 52b6f46bc1
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@@ -1379,6 +1379,66 @@ static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct delayed_work, vmstat_work);
int sysctl_stat_interval __read_mostly = HZ;
static cpumask_var_t cpu_stat_off;
#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS
static void refresh_vm_stats(struct work_struct *work)
{
refresh_cpu_vm_stats(true);
}
int vmstat_refresh(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos)
{
long val;
int err;
int i;
/*
* The regular update, every sysctl_stat_interval, may come later
* than expected: leaving a significant amount in per_cpu buckets.
* This is particularly misleading when checking a quantity of HUGE
* pages, immediately after running a test. /proc/sys/vm/stat_refresh,
* which can equally be echo'ed to or cat'ted from (by root),
* can be used to update the stats just before reading them.
*
* Oh, and since global_page_state() etc. are so careful to hide
* transiently negative values, report an error here if any of
* the stats is negative, so we know to go looking for imbalance.
*/
err = schedule_on_each_cpu(refresh_vm_stats);
if (err)
return err;
for (i = 0; i < NR_VM_ZONE_STAT_ITEMS; i++) {
val = atomic_long_read(&vm_stat[i]);
if (val < 0) {
switch (i) {
case NR_ALLOC_BATCH:
case NR_PAGES_SCANNED:
/*
* These are often seen to go negative in
* recent kernels, but not to go permanently
* negative. Whilst it would be nicer not to
* have exceptions, rooting them out would be
* another task, of rather low priority.
*/
break;
default:
pr_warn("%s: %s %ld\n",
__func__, vmstat_text[i], val);
err = -EINVAL;
break;
}
}
}
if (err)
return err;
if (write)
*ppos += *lenp;
else
*lenp = 0;
return 0;
}
#endif /* CONFIG_PROC_FS */
static void vmstat_update(struct work_struct *w)
{
if (refresh_cpu_vm_stats(true)) {