While the maximum size of each ramdisk is defined either as a module
parameter, or compile time default, it's impossible to know how many pages
have currently been allocated by each ram%d device, since they're
allocated when used and never freed.
This patch creates a new directory at this location:
/sys/kernel/debug/ramdisk_pages/
which will contain a file named "ram%d" for each instantiated ramdisk on
the system. The file is read-only, and read() will output the number of
pages currently held by that ramdisk.
We lose track how much memory a ramdisk is using as pages once used are
simply recycled but never freed.
In instances where we exhaust the size of the ramdisk with a file that
exceeds it, encounter ENOSPC and delete the file for mitigation; df would
show decrease in used and increase in available blocks but the since we
have touched all pages, the memory footprint of the ramdisk does not
reflect the blocks used/available count
...
[root@localhost ~]# mkfs.ext2 /dev/ram15
mke2fs 1.45.6 (20-Mar-2020)
Creating filesystem with 4096 1k blocks and 1024 inodes
[root@localhost ~]# mount /dev/ram15 /mnt/ram15/
[root@localhost ~]# cat
/sys/kernel/debug/ramdisk_pages/ram15
58
[root@kerneltest008.06.prn3 ~]# df /dev/ram15
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/ram15 3963 31 3728 1% /mnt/ram15
[root@kerneltest008.06.prn3 ~]# dd if=/dev/urandom of=/mnt/ram15/test2
bs=1M count=5
dd: error writing '/mnt/ram15/test2': No space left on device
4+0 records in
3+0 records out
4005888 bytes (4.0 MB, 3.8 MiB) copied, 0.
0446614 s, 89.7 MB/s
[root@kerneltest008.06.prn3 ~]# df /mnt/ram15/
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/ram15 3963 3960 0 100% /mnt/ram15
[root@kerneltest008.06.prn3 ~]# cat
/sys/kernel/debug/ramdisk_pages/ram15
1024
[root@kerneltest008.06.prn3 ~]# rm /mnt/ram15/test2
rm: remove regular file '/mnt/ram15/test2'? y
[root@kerneltest008.06.prn3 /var]# df /dev/ram15
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/ram15 3963 31 3728 1% /mnt/ram15
# Acutal memory footprint
[root@kerneltest008.06.prn3 /var]# cat
/sys/kernel/debug/ramdisk_pages/ram15
1024
...
This debugfs counter will always reveal the accurate number of
permanently allocated pages to the ramdisk.
Signed-off-by: Calvin Owens <calvinowens@fb.com>
[cleaned up the !CONFIG_DEBUG_FS case and API changes for HEAD]
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <jkkm@fb.com>
[rebased]
Signed-off-by: Saravanan D <saravanand@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
#include <linux/fs.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <linux/backing-dev.h>
+#include <linux/debugfs.h>
#include <linux/uaccess.h>
*/
spinlock_t brd_lock;
struct radix_tree_root brd_pages;
+ u64 brd_nr_pages;
};
/*
page = radix_tree_lookup(&brd->brd_pages, idx);
BUG_ON(!page);
BUG_ON(page->index != idx);
+ } else {
+ brd->brd_nr_pages++;
}
spin_unlock(&brd->brd_lock);
*/
static LIST_HEAD(brd_devices);
static DEFINE_MUTEX(brd_devices_mutex);
+static struct dentry *brd_debugfs_dir;
static struct brd_device *brd_alloc(int i)
{
struct brd_device *brd;
struct gendisk *disk;
+ char buf[DISK_NAME_LEN];
brd = kzalloc(sizeof(*brd), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!brd)
if (!brd->brd_queue)
goto out_free_dev;
+ snprintf(buf, DISK_NAME_LEN, "ram%d", i);
+ if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(brd_debugfs_dir))
+ debugfs_create_u64(buf, 0444, brd_debugfs_dir,
+ &brd->brd_nr_pages);
+
/* This is so fdisk will align partitions on 4k, because of
* direct_access API needing 4k alignment, returning a PFN
* (This is only a problem on very small devices <= 4M,
disk->fops = &brd_fops;
disk->private_data = brd;
disk->flags = GENHD_FL_EXT_DEVT;
- sprintf(disk->disk_name, "ram%d", i);
+ strlcpy(disk->disk_name, buf, DISK_NAME_LEN);
set_capacity(disk, rd_size * 2);
/* Tell the block layer that this is not a rotational device */
brd_check_and_reset_par();
+ brd_debugfs_dir = debugfs_create_dir("ramdisk_pages", NULL);
+
mutex_lock(&brd_devices_mutex);
for (i = 0; i < rd_nr; i++) {
brd = brd_alloc(i);
return 0;
out_free:
+ debugfs_remove_recursive(brd_debugfs_dir);
+
list_for_each_entry_safe(brd, next, &brd_devices, brd_list) {
list_del(&brd->brd_list);
brd_free(brd);
{
struct brd_device *brd, *next;
+ debugfs_remove_recursive(brd_debugfs_dir);
+
list_for_each_entry_safe(brd, next, &brd_devices, brd_list)
brd_del_one(brd);