From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64DE1C77B7A for ; Wed, 24 May 2023 05:51:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S239277AbjEXFvs (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 May 2023 01:51:48 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:38922 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S234559AbjEXFvq (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 May 2023 01:51:46 -0400 Received: from mxhk.zte.com.cn (mxhk.zte.com.cn [63.216.63.40]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D3470C1 for ; Tue, 23 May 2023 22:51:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mse-fl1.zte.com.cn (unknown [10.5.228.132]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mxhk.zte.com.cn (FangMail) with ESMTPS id 4QR0gJ6zZ8z8RTWf; Wed, 24 May 2023 13:51:40 +0800 (CST) Received: from szxlzmapp01.zte.com.cn ([10.5.231.85]) by mse-fl1.zte.com.cn with SMTP id 34O5pY5c047952; Wed, 24 May 2023 13:51:34 +0800 (+08) (envelope-from yang.yang29@zte.com.cn) Received: from mapi (szxlzmapp03[null]) by mapi (Zmail) with MAPI id mid14; Wed, 24 May 2023 13:51:36 +0800 (CST) Date: Wed, 24 May 2023 13:51:36 +0800 (CST) X-Zmail-TransId: 2b05646da5e8ffffffffcd2-a2267 X-Mailer: Zmail v1.0 Message-ID: <202305241351365661923@zte.com.cn> Mime-Version: 1.0 From: To: , Cc: , , , , , , , Subject: =?UTF-8?B?W1BBVENIIHY5IDAvNV0ga3NtOiBzdXBwb3J0IHRyYWNraW5nIEtTTS1wbGFjZWQgemVyby1wYWdlcw==?= Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-MAIL: mse-fl1.zte.com.cn 34O5pY5c047952 X-Fangmail-Gw-Spam-Type: 0 X-Fangmail-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-Fangmail-MID-QID: 646DA5EC.001/4QR0gJ6zZ8z8RTWf Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: xu xin The core idea of this patch set is to enable users to perceive the number of any pages merged by KSM, regardless of whether use_zero_page switch has been turned on, so that users can know how much free memory increase is really due to their madvise(MERGEABLE) actions. But the problem is, when enabling use_zero_pages, all empty pages will be merged with kernel zero pages instead of with each other as use_zero_pages is disabled, and then these zero-pages are no longer monitored by KSM. The motivations to do this is seen at: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/202302100915227721315@zte.com.cn/ In one word, we hope to implement the support for KSM-placed zero pages tracking without affecting the feature of use_zero_pages, so that app developer can also benefit from knowing the actual KSM profit by getting KSM-placed zero pages to optimize applications eventually when /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/use_zero_pages is enabled. Change log ---------- v8->v9: ------ (1) The previous [PATCH v8 4/6] is squashed into the current [PATCH v9 2/5]. (2) Improve the codes as David's suggestions. v7->v8: ------- (1) Since [1] which fix the bug of pte_mkdirty on sparc64 that makes pte writable, then we can remove the architechture restrictions of our features. (2) Improve the scheme of update ksm_zero_pages: add the handling case when khugepaged replaces a shared zeropage by a THP. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230411141529.428991-2-david@redhat.com/ v6->v7: ------- This is an all-newed version which is different from v6 which relys on KSM's rmap_item. The patch series don't rely on rmap_item but pte_dirty, so the general handling of tracking KSM-placed zero-pages is simplified a lot. For safety, we restrict this feature only to the tested and known-working architechtures (ARM, ARM64, and X86) fow now. xu xin (5): ksm: support unsharing KSM-placed zero pages ksm: count all zero pages placed by KSM ksm: add ksm zero pages for each process ksm: consider KSM-placed zeropages when calculating KSM profit selftest: add a testcase of ksm zero pages Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst | 25 ++++++-- fs/proc/base.c | 1 + include/linux/ksm.h | 22 +++++++ include/linux/mm_types.h | 9 ++- mm/khugepaged.c | 2 + mm/ksm.c | 28 ++++++-- mm/memory.c | 5 +- tools/testing/selftests/mm/ksm_functional_tests.c | 78 ++++++++++++++++++++++- 8 files changed, 154 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) -- 2.15.2