Re: [PATCH 3/4][resend] Show kernel stack usage in /proc/meminfo and OOM log output

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:02:25 +0900 (JST)
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> wrote:

> ChangeLog
>   Since v1
>    - Rewrote the descriptin (Thanks Christoph!)
> 
> =====================
> Subject: [PATCH] Show kernel stack usage in /proc/meminfo and OOM log output
> 
> The amount of memory allocated to kernel stacks can become significant and
> cause OOM conditions. However, we do not display the amount of memory
> consumed by stacks.
> 
> Add code to display the amount of memory used for stacks in /proc/meminfo.
> 
> ...
>  
> +static void account_kernel_stack(struct thread_info *ti, int account)
> +{
> +	struct zone *zone = page_zone(virt_to_page(ti));
> +
> +	mod_zone_page_state(zone, NR_KERNEL_STACK, account);
> +}
> +
>  void free_task(struct task_struct *tsk)
>  {
>  	prop_local_destroy_single(&tsk->dirties);
> +	account_kernel_stack(tsk->stack, -1);

But surely there are other less expensive ways of calculating this. 
The number we want is small-known-constant * number-of-tasks.

number-of-tasks probably isn't tracked, but can be calculated along the
lines of nr_running(), nr_uninterruptible() and nr_iowait().

number-of-tasks is also equal to number-of-task_structs and
number-of_thread_infos which can be obtained from slab (if the arch
implemented these via slab - uglier).