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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt | 14 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/vmstat.h | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/sysctl.c | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/vmstat.c | 60 |
4 files changed, 85 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt index 34a5fece3121..720355cbdf45 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt @@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ Currently, these files are in /proc/sys/vm: - panic_on_oom - percpu_pagelist_fraction - stat_interval +- stat_refresh - swappiness - user_reserve_kbytes - vfs_cache_pressure @@ -755,6 +756,19 @@ is 1 second. ============================================================== +stat_refresh + +Any read or write (by root only) flushes all the per-cpu vm statistics +into their global totals, for more accurate reports when testing +e.g. cat /proc/sys/vm/stat_refresh /proc/meminfo + +As a side-effect, it also checks for negative totals (elsewhere reported +as 0) and "fails" with EINVAL if any are found, with a warning in dmesg. +(At time of writing, a few stats are known sometimes to be found negative, +with no ill effects: errors and warnings on these stats are suppressed.) + +============================================================== + swappiness This control is used to define how aggressive the kernel will swap diff --git a/include/linux/vmstat.h b/include/linux/vmstat.h index 73fae8c4a5fb..02fce415b3d9 100644 --- a/include/linux/vmstat.h +++ b/include/linux/vmstat.h @@ -193,6 +193,10 @@ void quiet_vmstat(void); void cpu_vm_stats_fold(int cpu); void refresh_zone_stat_thresholds(void); +struct ctl_table; +int vmstat_refresh(struct ctl_table *, int write, + void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos); + void drain_zonestat(struct zone *zone, struct per_cpu_pageset *); int calculate_pressure_threshold(struct zone *zone); diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c index c8b318663525..2effd84d83e3 100644 --- a/kernel/sysctl.c +++ b/kernel/sysctl.c @@ -1521,6 +1521,13 @@ static struct ctl_table vm_table[] = { .mode = 0644, .proc_handler = proc_dointvec_jiffies, }, + { + .procname = "stat_refresh", + .data = NULL, + .maxlen = 0, + .mode = 0600, + .proc_handler = vmstat_refresh, + }, #endif #ifdef CONFIG_MMU { diff --git a/mm/vmstat.c b/mm/vmstat.c index a7de9adacbd9..c831be32a1a3 100644 --- a/mm/vmstat.c +++ b/mm/vmstat.c @@ -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)) { |