On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 12:45:33AM +0000, Naoya Horiguchi wrote: > From: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horigu...@ah.jp.nec.com> > Subject: [PATCH] mm: hugetlb: proc: add HugetlbPages field to /proc/PID/status > > Currently there's no easy way to get per-process usage of hugetlb pages, which > is inconvenient because userspace applications which use hugetlb typically > want > to control their processes on the basis of how much memory (including hugetlb) > they use. So this patch simply provides easy access to the info via > /proc/PID/status. > > With this patch, for example, /proc/PID/status shows a line like this: > > HugetlbPages: 20480 kB (10*2048kB) > > If your system supports and enables multiple hugepage sizes, the line looks > like this: > > HugetlbPages: 1069056 kB (1*1048576kB 10*2048kB) > > , so you can easily know how many hugepages in which pagesize are used by a > process. > > Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horigu...@ah.jp.nec.com>
Acked-by: Joern Engel <jo...@logfs.org> Jörn -- Computer system analysis is like child-rearing; you can do grievous damage, but you cannot ensure success." -- Tom DeMarco -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
