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mm/smaps: add Pss_Dirty
authorVincent Whitchurch <vincent.whitchurch@axis.com>
Mon, 20 Jun 2022 08:12:50 +0000 (10:12 +0200)
committerLiam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Wed, 20 Jul 2022 00:15:11 +0000 (20:15 -0400)
commit616b44071e3ced78f38e52f6d89a9d94781c5d27
tree2624343278d8b683f3970649ec89d10bf808fb27
parent6400b77793a0c8de134eba0855eef11b19b775e0
mm/smaps: add Pss_Dirty

Pss is the sum of the sizes of clean and dirty private pages, and the
proportional sizes of clean and dirty shared pages:

 Private = Private_Dirty + Private_Clean
 Shared_Proportional = Shared_Dirty_Proportional + Shared_Clean_Proportional
 Pss = Private + Shared_Proportional

The Shared*Proportional fields are not present in smaps, so it is not
always possible to determine how much of the Pss is from dirty pages and
how much is from clean pages.  This information can be useful for
measuring memory usage for the purpose of optimisation, since clean pages
can usually be discarded by the kernel immediately while dirty pages
cannot.

The smaps routines in the kernel already have access to this data, so add
a Pss_Dirty to show it to userspace.  Pss_Clean is not added since it can
be calculated from Pss and Pss_Dirty.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220620081251.2928103-1-vincent.whitchurch@axis.com
Signed-off-by: Vincent Whitchurch <vincent.whitchurch@axis.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Documentation/ABI/testing/procfs-smaps_rollup
Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst
fs/proc/task_mmu.c