mm, proc: report PR_SET_THP_DISABLE in proc

David Rientjes has reported that commit 1860033237d4 ("mm: make
PR_SET_THP_DISABLE immediately active") has changed the way how we
report THPable VMAs to the userspace.  Their monitoring tool is
triggering false alarms on PR_SET_THP_DISABLE tasks because it considers
an insufficient THP usage as a memory fragmentation resp.  memory
pressure issue.

Before the said commit each newly created VMA inherited VM_NOHUGEPAGE
flag and that got exposed to the userspace via /proc/<pid>/smaps file.
This implementation had its downsides as explained in the commit message
but it is true that the userspace doesn't have any means to query for
the process wide THP enabled/disabled status.

PR_SET_THP_DISABLE is a process wide flag so it makes a lot of sense to
export in the process wide context rather than per-vma.  Introduce a new
field to /proc/<pid>/status which export this status.  If
PR_SET_THP_DISABLE is used then it reports false same as when the THP is
not compiled in.  It doesn't consider the global THP status because we
already export that information via sysfs

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181211143641.3503-4-mhocko@kernel.org
Fixes: 1860033237d4 ("mm: make PR_SET_THP_DISABLE immediately active")
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Reported-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Oppenheimer <bepvte@gmail.com>
Cc: William Kucharski <william.kucharski@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/proc/array.c b/fs/proc/array.c
index 0ceb3b6b37e7..9d428d5a0ac8 100644
--- a/fs/proc/array.c
+++ b/fs/proc/array.c
@@ -392,6 +392,15 @@ static inline void task_core_dumping(struct seq_file *m, struct mm_struct *mm)
         seq_putc(m, '\n');
 }
 
+static inline void task_thp_status(struct seq_file *m, struct mm_struct *mm)
+{
+        bool thp_enabled = IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE);
+
+        if (thp_enabled)
+                thp_enabled = !test_bit(MMF_DISABLE_THP, &mm->flags);
+        seq_printf(m, "THP_enabled:\t%d\n", thp_enabled);
+}
+
 int proc_pid_status(struct seq_file *m, struct pid_namespace *ns,
                         struct pid *pid, struct task_struct *task)
 {
@@ -406,6 +415,7 @@ int proc_pid_status(struct seq_file *m, struct pid_namespace *ns,
         if (mm) {
                 task_mem(m, mm);
                 task_core_dumping(m, mm);
+                task_thp_status(m, mm);
                 mmput(mm);
         }
         task_sig(m, task);