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authorChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>2008-04-28 05:12:40 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-04-28 11:58:21 -0400
commita10aa579878fc6f9cd17455067380bbdf1d53c91 (patch)
treec42fbb1e9422e5334c2207cafed4a2b5b1ad16c4 /mm/vmalloc.c
parentb45445684198a946b587732265692e6495993abf (diff)
vmalloc: show vmalloced areas via /proc/vmallocinfo
Implement a new proc file that allows the display of the currently allocated vmalloc memory. It allows to see the users of vmalloc. That is important if vmalloc space is scarce (i386 for example). And it's going to be important for the compound page fallback to vmalloc. Many of the current users can be switched to use compound pages with fallback. This means that the number of users of vmalloc is reduced and page tables no longer necessary to access the memory. /proc/vmallocinfo allows to review how that reduction occurs. If memory becomes fragmented and larger order allocations are no longer possible then /proc/vmallocinfo allows to see which compound page allocations fell back to virtual compound pages. That is important for new users of virtual compound pages. Such as order 1 stack allocation etc that may fallback to virtual compound pages in the future. /proc/vmallocinfo permissions are made readable-only-by-root to avoid possible information leakage. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: CONFIG_MMU=n build fix] Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/vmalloc.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/vmalloc.c76
1 files changed, 75 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
index ecf91f8034bf..afa550f66537 100644
--- a/mm/vmalloc.c
+++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
14#include <linux/slab.h> 14#include <linux/slab.h>
15#include <linux/spinlock.h> 15#include <linux/spinlock.h>
16#include <linux/interrupt.h> 16#include <linux/interrupt.h>
17 17#include <linux/seq_file.h>
18#include <linux/vmalloc.h> 18#include <linux/vmalloc.h>
19 19
20#include <asm/uaccess.h> 20#include <asm/uaccess.h>
@@ -873,3 +873,77 @@ void free_vm_area(struct vm_struct *area)
873 kfree(area); 873 kfree(area);
874} 874}
875EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(free_vm_area); 875EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(free_vm_area);
876
877
878#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS
879static void *s_start(struct seq_file *m, loff_t *pos)
880{
881 loff_t n = *pos;
882 struct vm_struct *v;
883
884 read_lock(&vmlist_lock);
885 v = vmlist;
886 while (n > 0 && v) {
887 n--;
888 v = v->next;
889 }
890 if (!n)
891 return v;
892
893 return NULL;
894
895}
896
897static void *s_next(struct seq_file *m, void *p, loff_t *pos)
898{
899 struct vm_struct *v = p;
900
901 ++*pos;
902 return v->next;
903}
904
905static void s_stop(struct seq_file *m, void *p)
906{
907 read_unlock(&vmlist_lock);
908}
909
910static int s_show(struct seq_file *m, void *p)
911{
912 struct vm_struct *v = p;
913
914 seq_printf(m, "0x%p-0x%p %7ld",
915 v->addr, v->addr + v->size, v->size);
916
917 if (v->nr_pages)
918 seq_printf(m, " pages=%d", v->nr_pages);
919
920 if (v->phys_addr)
921 seq_printf(m, " phys=%lx", v->phys_addr);
922
923 if (v->flags & VM_IOREMAP)
924 seq_printf(m, " ioremap");
925
926 if (v->flags & VM_ALLOC)
927 seq_printf(m, " vmalloc");
928
929 if (v->flags & VM_MAP)
930 seq_printf(m, " vmap");
931
932 if (v->flags & VM_USERMAP)
933 seq_printf(m, " user");
934
935 if (v->flags & VM_VPAGES)
936 seq_printf(m, " vpages");
937
938 seq_putc(m, '\n');
939 return 0;
940}
941
942const struct seq_operations vmalloc_op = {
943 .start = s_start,
944 .next = s_next,
945 .stop = s_stop,
946 .show = s_show,
947};
948#endif
949