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Commit 97105f0a authored by Roman Gushchin's avatar Roman Gushchin Committed by Linus Torvalds
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mm: vmalloc: show number of vmalloc pages in /proc/meminfo

Vmalloc() is getting more and more used these days (kernel stacks, bpf and
percpu allocator are new top users), and the total % of memory consumed by
vmalloc() can be pretty significant and changes dynamically.

/proc/meminfo is the best place to display this information: its top goal
is to show top consumers of the memory.

Since the VmallocUsed field in /proc/meminfo is not in use for quite a
long time (it has been defined to 0 by a5ad88ce ("mm: get rid of
'vmalloc_info' from /proc/meminfo")), let's reuse it for showing the
actual physical memory consumption of vmalloc().

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190417194002.12369-3-guro@fb.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarRoman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Acked-by: default avatarJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: default avatarVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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