mm: count swap usage

A frequent questions from users about memory management is what numbers of
swap ents are user for processes.  And this information will give some
hints to oom-killer.

Besides we can count the number of swapents per a process by scanning
/proc/<pid>/smaps, this is very slow and not good for usual process
information handler which works like 'ps' or 'top'.  (ps or top is now
enough slow..)

This patch adds a counter of swapents to mm_counter and update is at each
swap events.  Information is exported via /proc/<pid>/status file as

[kamezawa@bluextal memory]$ cat /proc/self/status
Name:   cat
State:  R (running)
Tgid:   2910
Pid:    2910
PPid:   2823
TracerPid:      0
Uid:    500     500     500     500
Gid:    500     500     500     500
FDSize: 256
Groups: 500
VmPeak:    82696 kB
VmSize:    82696 kB
VmLck:         0 kB
VmHWM:       432 kB
VmRSS:       432 kB
VmData:      172 kB
VmStk:        84 kB
VmExe:        48 kB
VmLib:      1568 kB
VmPTE:        40 kB
VmSwap:        0 kB <=============== this.

[[email protected]: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <[email protected]>
Cc: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 2010-03-05 13:41:42 -08:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds
commit b084d4353f
6 changed files with 23 additions and 7 deletions

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@ -840,6 +840,7 @@ static int unuse_pte(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *pmd,
goto out;
}
dec_mm_counter(vma->vm_mm, MM_SWAPENTS);
inc_mm_counter(vma->vm_mm, MM_ANONPAGES);
get_page(page);
set_pte_at(vma->vm_mm, addr, pte,