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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst | 16 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst | 29 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst index c59889de122b..e86c968a7a0e 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst @@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ Currently, these files are in /proc/sys/vm: - legacy_va_layout - lowmem_reserve_ratio - max_map_count +- mem_profiling (only if CONFIG_MEM_ALLOC_PROFILING=y) - memory_failure_early_kill - memory_failure_recovery - min_free_kbytes @@ -425,6 +426,21 @@ e.g., up to one or two maps per allocation. The default value is 65530. +mem_profiling +============== + +Enable memory profiling (when CONFIG_MEM_ALLOC_PROFILING=y) + +1: Enable memory profiling. + +0: Disable memory profiling. + +Enabling memory profiling introduces a small performance overhead for all +memory allocations. + +The default value depends on CONFIG_MEM_ALLOC_PROFILING_ENABLED_BY_DEFAULT. + + memory_failure_early_kill: ========================== diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst index c6a6b9df2104..245269dd6e02 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst @@ -688,6 +688,7 @@ files are there, and which are missing. ============ =============================================================== File Content ============ =============================================================== + allocinfo Memory allocations profiling information apm Advanced power management info bootconfig Kernel command line obtained from boot config, and, if there were kernel parameters from the @@ -953,6 +954,34 @@ also be allocatable although a lot of filesystem metadata may have to be reclaimed to achieve this. +allocinfo +~~~~~~~~~ + +Provides information about memory allocations at all locations in the code +base. Each allocation in the code is identified by its source file, line +number, module (if originates from a loadable module) and the function calling +the allocation. The number of bytes allocated and number of calls at each +location are reported. + +Example output. + +:: + + > sort -rn /proc/allocinfo + 127664128 31168 mm/page_ext.c:270 func:alloc_page_ext + 56373248 4737 mm/slub.c:2259 func:alloc_slab_page + 14880768 3633 mm/readahead.c:247 func:page_cache_ra_unbounded + 14417920 3520 mm/mm_init.c:2530 func:alloc_large_system_hash + 13377536 234 block/blk-mq.c:3421 func:blk_mq_alloc_rqs + 11718656 2861 mm/filemap.c:1919 func:__filemap_get_folio + 9192960 2800 kernel/fork.c:307 func:alloc_thread_stack_node + 4206592 4 net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c:2567 func:nf_ct_alloc_hashtable + 4136960 1010 drivers/staging/ctagmod/ctagmod.c:20 [ctagmod] func:ctagmod_start + 3940352 962 mm/memory.c:4214 func:alloc_anon_folio + 2894464 22613 fs/kernfs/dir.c:615 func:__kernfs_new_node + ... + + meminfo ~~~~~~~ |