The patch titled Subject: mm: fix the inaccurate memory statistics issue for users has been added to the -mm mm-hotfixes-unstable branch. Its filename is mm-fix-the-inaccurate-memory-statistics-issue-for-users.patch
This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches...
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------------------------------------------------------ From: Baolin Wang baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com Subject: mm: fix the inaccurate memory statistics issue for users Date: Sat, 24 May 2025 09:59:53 +0800
On some large machines with a high number of CPUs running a 64K pagesize kernel, we found that the 'RES' field is always 0 displayed by the top command for some processes, which will cause a lot of confusion for users.
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 875525 root 20 0 12480 0 0 R 0.3 0.0 0:00.08 top 1 root 20 0 172800 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:04.52 systemd
The main reason is that the batch size of the percpu counter is quite large on these machines, caching a significant percpu value, since converting mm's rss stats into percpu_counter by commit f1a7941243c1 ("mm: convert mm's rss stats into percpu_counter"). Intuitively, the batch number should be optimized, but on some paths, performance may take precedence over statistical accuracy. Therefore, introducing a new interface to add the percpu statistical count and display it to users, which can remove the confusion. In addition, this change is not expected to be on a performance-critical path, so the modification should be acceptable.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/4f0fd51eb4f48c1a34226456b7a8b4ebff11bf72.174805185... Fixes: f1a7941243c1 ("mm: convert mm's rss stats into percpu_counter") Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com Tested-by Donet Tom donettom@linux.ibm.com Reviewed-by: Aboorva Devarajan aboorvad@linux.ibm.com Tested-by: Aboorva Devarajan aboorvad@linux.ibm.com Acked-by: Shakeel Butt shakeel.butt@linux.dev Acked-by: SeongJae Park sj@kernel.org Cc: David Hildenbrand david@redhat.com Cc: Liam Howlett liam.howlett@oracle.com Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com Cc: Michal Hocko mhocko@suse.com Cc: Mike Rapoport rppt@kernel.org Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan surenb@google.com Cc: Vlastimil Babka vbabka@suse.cz Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org ---
fs/proc/task_mmu.c | 14 +++++++------- include/linux/mm.h | 5 +++++ 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
--- a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c~mm-fix-the-inaccurate-memory-statistics-issue-for-users +++ a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c @@ -36,9 +36,9 @@ void task_mem(struct seq_file *m, struct unsigned long text, lib, swap, anon, file, shmem; unsigned long hiwater_vm, total_vm, hiwater_rss, total_rss;
- anon = get_mm_counter(mm, MM_ANONPAGES); - file = get_mm_counter(mm, MM_FILEPAGES); - shmem = get_mm_counter(mm, MM_SHMEMPAGES); + anon = get_mm_counter_sum(mm, MM_ANONPAGES); + file = get_mm_counter_sum(mm, MM_FILEPAGES); + shmem = get_mm_counter_sum(mm, MM_SHMEMPAGES);
/* * Note: to minimize their overhead, mm maintains hiwater_vm and @@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ void task_mem(struct seq_file *m, struct text = min(text, mm->exec_vm << PAGE_SHIFT); lib = (mm->exec_vm << PAGE_SHIFT) - text;
- swap = get_mm_counter(mm, MM_SWAPENTS); + swap = get_mm_counter_sum(mm, MM_SWAPENTS); SEQ_PUT_DEC("VmPeak:\t", hiwater_vm); SEQ_PUT_DEC(" kB\nVmSize:\t", total_vm); SEQ_PUT_DEC(" kB\nVmLck:\t", mm->locked_vm); @@ -92,12 +92,12 @@ unsigned long task_statm(struct mm_struc unsigned long *shared, unsigned long *text, unsigned long *data, unsigned long *resident) { - *shared = get_mm_counter(mm, MM_FILEPAGES) + - get_mm_counter(mm, MM_SHMEMPAGES); + *shared = get_mm_counter_sum(mm, MM_FILEPAGES) + + get_mm_counter_sum(mm, MM_SHMEMPAGES); *text = (PAGE_ALIGN(mm->end_code) - (mm->start_code & PAGE_MASK)) >> PAGE_SHIFT; *data = mm->data_vm + mm->stack_vm; - *resident = *shared + get_mm_counter(mm, MM_ANONPAGES); + *resident = *shared + get_mm_counter_sum(mm, MM_ANONPAGES); return mm->total_vm; }
--- a/include/linux/mm.h~mm-fix-the-inaccurate-memory-statistics-issue-for-users +++ a/include/linux/mm.h @@ -2708,6 +2708,11 @@ static inline unsigned long get_mm_count return percpu_counter_read_positive(&mm->rss_stat[member]); }
+static inline unsigned long get_mm_counter_sum(struct mm_struct *mm, int member) +{ + return percpu_counter_sum_positive(&mm->rss_stat[member]); +} + void mm_trace_rss_stat(struct mm_struct *mm, int member);
static inline void add_mm_counter(struct mm_struct *mm, int member, long value) _
Patches currently in -mm which might be from baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com are
mm-fix-the-inaccurate-memory-statistics-issue-for-users.patch