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PSS(proportional set size) accounting in smaps

PATCH In review Fengguang Wu 2 participants 2 messages Aug 14, 2007

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PATCH 1/1 PSS(proportional set size) accounting in smaps

The "proportional set size" (PSS) of a process is the count of pages it has in memory, where each page is divided by the number of processes sharing it. So if a process has 1000 pages all to itself, and 1000 shared with one other process, its PSS will be 1500.
- lwn.net: "ELC: How much memory are applications really using?"

The PSS proposed by Matt Mackall is a very nice metic for measuring an process's memory footprint. So collect and export it via /proc/<pid>/smaps.

Matt Mackall's pagemap/kpagemap and John Berthels's exmap can also do the job, providing pretty much details. But for PSS, let's do it in a simple way.

Cc Matt Mackall <[email protected]>
Cc John Berthels <[email protected]>
---
 fs/proc/task_mmu.c |   13 ++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
fs/proc/task_mmu.c +10 -3
@@ -319,6 +319,7 @@ const struct file_operations proc_maps_o
 struct mem_size_stats
 {
 	unsigned long resident;
+	u64 	      pss;	/* proportional set size: my share of rss */
 	unsigned long shared_clean;
 	unsigned long shared_dirty;
 	unsigned long private_clean;
@@ -341,6 +342,7 @@ static int smaps_pte_range(pmd_t *pmd, u
 	pte_t *pte, ptent;
 	spinlock_t *ptl;
 	struct page *page;
+	int mapcount;
 
 	pte = pte_offset_map_lock(vma->vm_mm, pmd, addr, &ptl);
 	for (; addr != end; pte++, addr += PAGE_SIZE) {
@@ -357,16 +359,19 @@ static int smaps_pte_range(pmd_t *pmd, u
 		/* Accumulate the size in pages that have been accessed. */
 		if (pte_young(ptent) || PageReferenced(page))
 			mss->referenced += PAGE_SIZE;
-		if (page_mapcount(page) >= 2) {
+		mapcount = page_mapcount(page);
+		if (mapcount >= 2) {
 			if (pte_dirty(ptent))
 				mss->shared_dirty += PAGE_SIZE;
 			else
 				mss->shared_clean += PAGE_SIZE;
+			mss->pss += (PAGE_SIZE << 12) / mapcount;
 		} else {
 			if (pte_dirty(ptent))
 				mss->private_dirty += PAGE_SIZE;
 			else
 				mss->private_clean += PAGE_SIZE;
+			mss->pss += (PAGE_SIZE << 12);
 		}
 	}
 	pte_unmap_unlock(pte - 1, ptl);
@@ -395,18 +400,20 @@ static int show_smap(struct seq_file *m,
 	seq_printf(m,
 		   "Size:           %8lu kB\n"
 		   "Rss:            %8lu kB\n"
+		   "Pss:            %8lu kB\n"
 		   "Shared_Clean:   %8lu kB\n"
 		   "Shared_Dirty:   %8lu kB\n"
 		   "Private_Clean:  %8lu kB\n"
 		   "Private_Dirty:  %8lu kB\n"
 		   "Referenced:     %8lu kB\n",
 		   (vma->vm_end - vma->vm_start) >> 10,
-		   sarg.mss.resident >> 10,
+		   sarg.mss.resident      >> 10,
+		   (unsigned long)(mss->pss >> 22),
 		   sarg.mss.shared_clean  >> 10,
 		   sarg.mss.shared_dirty  >> 10,
 		   sarg.mss.private_clean >> 10,
 		   sarg.mss.private_dirty >> 10,
-		   sarg.mss.referenced >> 10);
+		   sarg.mss.referenced    >> 10);
 
 	return ret;
 }
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Quoted 9 lines · Fengguang Wu

The "proportional set size" (PSS) of a process is the count of pages it has in memory, where each page is divided by the number of processes sharing it. So if a process has 1000 pages all to itself, and 1000 shared with one other process, its PSS will be 1500.
- lwn.net: "ELC: How much memory are applications really using?"

The PSS proposed by Matt Mackall is a very nice metic for measuring an process's memory footprint. So collect and export it via /proc/<pid>/smaps.

Quoted 6 lines

Matt Mackall's pagemap/kpagemap and John Berthels's exmap can also do the job, providing pretty much details. But for PSS, let's do it in a simple way.

Cc Matt Mackall <[email protected]>
Cc John Berthels <[email protected]>

I like the idea of moving towards PSS. I had sent some patches back in December last year

http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=116738715329816&w=4

Quoted 23 lines
---
 fs/proc/task_mmu.c |   13 ++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
fs/proc/task_mmu.c +2 -0
@@ -319,6 +319,7 @@ const struct file_operations proc_maps_o
 struct mem_size_stats
 {
 	unsigned long resident;
+	u64 	      pss;	/* proportional set size: my share of rss */
 	unsigned long shared_clean;
 	unsigned long shared_dirty;
 	unsigned long private_clean;
@@ -341,6 +342,7 @@ static int smaps_pte_range(pmd_t *pmd, u
 	pte_t *pte, ptent;
 	spinlock_t *ptl;
 	struct page *page;
+	int mapcount;
 
 	pte = pte_offset_map_lock(vma->vm_mm, pmd, addr, &ptl);
 	for (; addr != end; pte++, addr += PAGE_SIZE) {

fs/proc/task_mmu.c static int smaps_pte_range(pmd_t *pmd, u · line 363

Quoted 6 lines
fs/proc/task_mmu.c +2 -1
@@ -357,16 +359,19 @@ static int smaps_pte_range(pmd_t *pmd, u
 		/* Accumulate the size in pages that have been accessed. */
 		if (pte_young(ptent) || PageReferenced(page))
 			mss->referenced += PAGE_SIZE;
-		if (page_mapcount(page) >= 2) {
+		mapcount = page_mapcount(page);
+		if (mapcount >= 2) {

This accounting is of-course racy. Mapcount can change any moment.

Quoted 28 lines
fs/proc/task_mmu.c +4 -1
 			if (pte_dirty(ptent))
 				mss->shared_dirty += PAGE_SIZE;
 			else
 				mss->shared_clean += PAGE_SIZE;
+			mss->pss += (PAGE_SIZE << 12) / mapcount;
 		} else {
 			if (pte_dirty(ptent))
 				mss->private_dirty += PAGE_SIZE;
 			else
 				mss->private_clean += PAGE_SIZE;
+			mss->pss += (PAGE_SIZE << 12);
 		}
 	}
 	pte_unmap_unlock(pte - 1, ptl);
@@ -395,18 +400,20 @@ static int show_smap(struct seq_file *m,
 	seq_printf(m,
 		   "Size:           %8lu kB\n"
 		   "Rss:            %8lu kB\n"
+		   "Pss:            %8lu kB\n"
 		   "Shared_Clean:   %8lu kB\n"
 		   "Shared_Dirty:   %8lu kB\n"
 		   "Private_Clean:  %8lu kB\n"
 		   "Private_Dirty:  %8lu kB\n"
 		   "Referenced:     %8lu kB\n",
 		   (vma->vm_end - vma->vm_start) >> 10,
-		   sarg.mss.resident >> 10,
+		   sarg.mss.resident      >> 10,

fs/proc/task_mmu.c static int show_smap(struct seq_file *m, · line 419

Quoted 10 lines
fs/proc/task_mmu.c +2 -1
+		   (unsigned long)(mss->pss >> 22),
 		   sarg.mss.shared_clean  >> 10,
 		   sarg.mss.shared_dirty  >> 10,
 		   sarg.mss.private_clean >> 10,
 		   sarg.mss.private_dirty >> 10,
-		   sarg.mss.referenced >> 10);
+		   sarg.mss.referenced    >> 10);
 
 	return ret;
 }

If we are reasonably sure that mapping will not change at the time of page_rmap_xxxxx() operations, we could handle shared accounting at those points and implement accurate shared accounting.

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	Balbir Singh
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	IBM, ISTL