On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 12:50:26PM +0000, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> Currently we display some hugepage statistics (total, free, etc)
> in /proc/meminfo, but only for default hugepage size (e.g. 2Mb).
> 
> If hugepages of different sizes are used (like 2Mb and 1Gb on x86-64),
> /proc/meminfo output can be confusing, as non-default sized hugepages
> are not reflected at all, and there are no signs that they are
> existing and consuming system memory.
> 
> To solve this problem, let's display the total amount of memory,
> consumed by hugetlb pages of all sized (both free and used).
> Let's call it "Hugetlb", and display size in kB to match generic
> /proc/meminfo style.
> 
> For example, (1024 2Mb pages and 2 1Gb pages are pre-allocated):
>   $ cat /proc/meminfo
>   MemTotal:        8168984 kB
>   MemFree:         3789276 kB
>   <...>
>   CmaFree:               0 kB
>   HugePages_Total:    1024
>   HugePages_Free:     1024
>   HugePages_Rsvd:        0
>   HugePages_Surp:        0
>   Hugepagesize:       2048 kB
>   Hugetlb:         4194304 kB
>   DirectMap4k:       32632 kB
>   DirectMap2M:     4161536 kB
>   DirectMap1G:     6291456 kB
> 
> Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <g...@fb.com>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Michal Hocko <mho...@suse.com>
> Cc: Johannes Weiner <han...@cmpxchg.org>
> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.krav...@oracle.com>
> Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.ku...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarca...@redhat.com>
> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.han...@intel.com>
> Cc: kernel-t...@fb.com
> Cc: linux...@kvack.org
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org

Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <han...@cmpxchg.org>

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