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| author | David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> | 2007-05-06 14:49:24 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-05-07 12:12:52 -0700 |
| commit | b813e931b4c8235bb42e301096ea97dbdee3e8fe (patch) | |
| tree | f8182687bffe8e3b95bac69b2cc7fdfe674ddc53 /include | |
| parent | f79f177c25016647cc92ffac8afa7cb96ce47011 (diff) | |
smaps: add clear_refs file to clear reference
Adds /proc/pid/clear_refs. When any non-zero number is written to this file,
pte_mkold() and ClearPageReferenced() is called for each pte and its
corresponding page, respectively, in that task's VMAs. This file is only
writable by the user who owns the task.
It is now possible to measure _approximately_ how much memory a task is using
by clearing the reference bits with
echo 1 > /proc/pid/clear_refs
and checking the reference count for each VMA from the /proc/pid/smaps output
at a measured time interval. For example, to observe the approximate change
in memory footprint for a task, write a script that clears the references
(echo 1 > /proc/pid/clear_refs), sleeps, and then greps for Pgs_Referenced and
extracts the size in kB. Add the sizes for each VMA together for the total
referenced footprint. Moments later, repeat the process and observe the
difference.
For example, using an efficient Mozilla:
accumulated time referenced memory
---------------- -----------------
0 s 408 kB
1 s 408 kB
2 s 556 kB
3 s 1028 kB
4 s 872 kB
5 s 1956 kB
6 s 416 kB
7 s 1560 kB
8 s 2336 kB
9 s 1044 kB
10 s 416 kB
This is a valuable tool to get an approximate measurement of the memory
footprint for a task.
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fixes]
[mpm@selenic.com: rename for_each_pmd]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/proc_fs.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/proc_fs.h b/include/linux/proc_fs.h index be4652a0545..f4f7a63cae1 100644 --- a/include/linux/proc_fs.h +++ b/include/linux/proc_fs.h @@ -104,6 +104,7 @@ int proc_pid_readdir(struct file * filp, void * dirent, filldir_t filldir); unsigned long task_vsize(struct mm_struct *); int task_statm(struct mm_struct *, int *, int *, int *, int *); char *task_mem(struct mm_struct *, char *); +void clear_refs_smap(struct mm_struct *mm); extern struct proc_dir_entry *create_proc_entry(const char *name, mode_t mode, struct proc_dir_entry *parent); |