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Jim Warner
3e5c950a5e top: make command line switch parsing even more robust
This program has always tried to maintain an extermely
robust command line parsing procedure, far more robust
that what's available with the getopt stuff. But, with
the introduction of our first numeric switch it should
have been made even more robust than, in fact, it was.

This commit will now accomplish such a desirable goal.

Reference(s):
. added '1' command line switch
commit 5e708c5db7

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2017-03-29 22:10:33 +11:00
Jim Warner
810e1d38ab top: just update all of the copyright dates in sources
[ this patch has been adapted from the master branch ]

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2017-03-16 22:08:07 +11:00
Jim Warner
835ee677d0 top: by default, show cmd line vs. cmd name at startup
All of top's display was designed to fit into an 80x24
terminal. This includes the help screens plus both the
Summary and Task Areas, assuming no saved config file.

With release 3.3.10, the startup defaults were changed
assuming ./configure --disable-modern-top wasn't used.
This was done in the hope of introducing some users to
unknown capabilities such as colors, forest view, etc.

The purpose of this commit is to coax a few more users
into possibly exploring another capability: scrolling.
We do so by tweaking the default startup display so as
to show full command lines. Now, when things no longer
fit in 80x24, horizontal scrolling might be exploited.

[ of course, this can be reversed with the -c switch ]

[ this patch has been adapted from the master branch ]

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2017-03-16 22:08:07 +11:00
Jim Warner
5e708c5db7 top: provide -1 command line switch as 'Cpu(s)' toggle
If built without ./configure --disable-modern-top, the
program displays each cpu individually providing there
is sufficient vertical screen real estate. For massive
SMP environments this will necessitate use of a config
file where the cpu summary toggle ('1') could be saved
via the 'W' command. But, an rcfile may not be viable.

So this commit introduces a '1' command line switch to
emulate exactly the effects of the interactive toggle.

And since it is our first numeric switch some existing
parsing logic had to be changed slightly. Such changes
are, in truth, an improvement. For example, instead of
seeing "inappropriate '2'" with ./top -2 we'll now see
the vastly more appropriate error "unknown option '2'.

References(s):
https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/issues/55

[ this patch has been adapted from the master branch ]

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2017-03-16 22:08:07 +11:00
Jim Warner
b2bd65407a top: provide -E command line switch for memory scaling
In their 3.2.7 version of top, Redhat introduced an -M
switch to automatically scale Summary Area memory data
to avoid truncation (and the resulting '+' indicator).

The procps-ng top does not employ suffixes with memory
data nor does it allow for different scaling with each
separate value. Rather, scaling appears at line start.

If built without ./configure --disable-modern-top, the
Summary Area memory will be scaled at GiB which should
lessen chance of truncation. Otherwise KiB was used to
reflect such memory, increasing the truncation chance.

And while 'W' can be used to preserve some appropriate
scaling value, there are arguments against such rcfile
approaches as cited in the issue and bug report below.

So this commit will bump the Summary Area memory scale
factor from KiB to MiB when using --disable-modern-top
as a concession to that Redhat bug report noted below.

And it also introduces a new command line switch which
can force any desired scaling regardless of the rcfile
or which ./configure option might have been specified.

[ for top's help text we'll show 'E' as if it were a ]
[ switch without arguments in order to keep the help ]
[ text displayable without wrap in an 80x24 terminal ]

[ the man page, however, will show all k-e arguments ]

Reference(s):
https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/issues/53
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1034466

[ this patch has been adapted from the master branch ]

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2017-03-16 22:08:07 +11:00
Jim Warner
f318be467b top: show fewer decimal places for memory (by default)
After much reflection I've come to the conclusion that
displaying 3 decimal places (usually) when memory data
had been scaled is no longer optimal with today's ever
increasing amounts. And given that not all task memory
fields are the same widths, inconsistencies can easily
arise as illustrated and discussed in the issue below.

Instead of unilaterally reducing the number of decimal
places, this commit will sneak in such a change via an
existing configure option that was very likely unused.

The former 'disable-wide-memory' option has now become
'enable-wide-memory', which can be used if the current
behavior (3 decimal places) is preferred. Without that
option, whenever memory is scaled beyond KiB, just one
decimal place will be shown in Summary and Task areas.

And Task area field width will no longer be changed by
this revised configure option. Instead, all such field
widths will now be fixed at the former maximum values.

Reference(s):
https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/issues/50

[ this patch has been adapted from the master branch ]

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2017-03-16 22:08:07 +11:00
Jim Warner
7468e229e8 top: correct alphabetic ordering with some enumerators
[ this patch has been adapted from the master branch ]

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2017-03-16 22:08:07 +11:00
Jim Warner
a81a74a1df top: adapt the master branch XDG specification support
This patch adapts a master branch commit to our newlib
branch. Shown below was that original commit msg text.

------------------------------------------------------
top: Add unobtrusive XDG support

By default the file HOME/.toprc will be prefered.  This ensures there
should be minimal breakage even if this file is later created by some
other means.  Otherwise we will follow the new behaviour described by
the XDG Base Directory Specification:

If the XDG_CONFIG_HOME environment variable is available we will attempt
to use this as XDG_CONFIG_HOME/procps/toprc otherwise we will fall-back
to HOME/.config/procps/toprc instead.

Signed-off-by: Earnestly <zibeon@gmail.com>
------------------------------------------------------

Reference(s):
. master branch original
commit 0a0f7d60e309c13c8a399bc2187bed6e3e156b43
. discussion thread
https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/merge_requests/38

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2017-02-04 11:07:06 +11:00
Jim Warner
904f4c3b35 top: exploits several <stat> new category calculations
This commit just exploits those new library provisions
for tic categories, introduced in the preceding patch,
which had been prompted by the issue referenced below.

[ ok it also corrects the top graph for system usage ]
[ since this turkey failed to include tics for these ]
[ two interrupts: STAT_TIC_IRQ and STAT_TIC_SOFTIRQ. ]

Reference(s):
https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/issues/48

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2017-01-04 08:29:44 +11:00
Jim Warner
57dfe6f92c top: accumulated misc tweaks to code/comments/man page
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2016-12-07 22:07:00 +11:00
Jim Warner
f0064ac18f top: tweak some stuff relating to non-displayed fields
In the commit referenced below, in addition to several
tweaks to comments, 3 fields were no longer assured of
being present in the results stacks. However, 2 of the
3 fields might, in fact, be required even if they were
not currently being displayed in any of the 4 windows.

The PIDS_CMD is used in two separate 'Inspect' headers
('Y' command) and the PIDS_ID_EUID is required if that
'User Filter' ('u' or 'U' command) was being employed.

That latter field's inclusion will be made conditional
but the former field must be unconditionally included.

( for old top, PIDS_CMD would have always been there )

Reference(s):
commit 4e4debda9b

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2016-10-16 08:24:32 +11:00
Jim Warner
f3ec7f0032 top: make that 'forest view' just a tad more efficient
It makes no sense to begin our tracked nested level at
'1' then later require a '1' to be subtracted from the
level as artwork and indentation is added for display.

By beginning such tracked levels at zero, we can avoid
the need to adjust it & use it directly in a snprintf.

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2016-10-16 08:23:38 +11:00
Jim Warner
7730bcf53d top: just cosmetic changes, absolutely no code altered
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2016-10-16 08:23:38 +11:00
Jim Warner
ffeef98499 top: adapt for loss of fields obsoleted with linux 2.6
It would have been nice to remove this 'nDRT' guy from
the fields management screen and man document as well.
But, while this version of top could be made to handle
an older rcfile, the reverse would not have been true.

Besides, it's been zero for so long already we'll just
include a 'deprecated' note in top's man page for now.

[ the 'nTH ' field number was corrected in there too ]

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2016-10-09 21:31:29 +11:00
Jim Warner
a5ec5efc9a top: remove explicit references to NUMA_DISABLE define
Since our library is responsible for NUMA support, and
since the top program already accommodates the lack of
NUMA data, there's no reason that #define NUMA_DISABLE
need be explicitly referenced in the top source files.

Ergo, this commit just eliminates all such references.
Now, top will rely only on procps_stat_reap() results.

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2016-09-21 21:06:12 +10:00
Jim Warner
793ada6ec5 top: correct comments & code regarding sysinfo_refresh
This commit just brings some comments plus identifiers
into agreement with the current newlib implementation.

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2016-09-11 09:31:05 +10:00
Jim Warner
b53fb7f8ea top: avoid yet more overhead of accessing /proc/status
After discovering those terrible costs associated with
/proc/status vs. /proc/stat, our library changed so as
to favor the latter if a field could be met by either.

Well, low-and-behold, this top program had chosen some
item enumerators that needlessly caused 'status' to be
accessed when 'statm' could be used instead. And while
top's needs require conversion from pages to KiB, that
is still far less costly than that damn 'status' file.

[ this was found when comparing newlib top against a ]
[ 3.2.8 ancient top since the current master top was ]
[ suffering from the exact same 'status' deficiency. ]

[ and, no way was top-3.2.8 going to beat newlib top ]
[ by 50% - we'll allow only a 1-10% occasional loss! ]

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2016-08-23 21:11:09 +10:00
Jim Warner
4e4debda9b top: minimized default fields requested of our library
After doing some profiling and timings, then comparing
newlib top to the existing 3.3.12 version, I concluded
top should avoid stack results unless actually needed.

Not only will stack depth be kept to minimums, but the
new library can save some otherwise wasted pathlength.

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2016-08-23 21:11:09 +10:00
Jim Warner
6b6ad95f40 top: ensure derived VAL macro management is consistent
With this patch, top has ensured that base library VAL
macros are never found inside function bodies. Rather,
they are used solely to support global derived macros.

Program functions remain free to further tailor macros
but they'll now always be based on the top derivative.

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2016-08-07 21:43:38 +10:00
Jim Warner
105058ae2d related: fix inconsistencies in result type references
This patch is a response to errors found in those type
references now that our library allows for validation.

In two cases, former assignments to a result structure
could no longer employ that VAL macro if validation is
active. Thus, direct reference to some stack was used.

For the record, those instances were to be found here:
. ps - uses PIDS_extra to store the cooked pcpu values
. top - uses PIDS_extra to store the forest view level

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2016-08-07 21:40:48 +10:00
Jim Warner
e0515e23e7 related: respond to VAL macro addition of context parm
Since the VAL macro now requires a 4th parameter, this
commit simply adds the 'info' context structure to it.

In some cases, that context structure needed to become
global, since it was referenced in multiple functions.

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2016-08-07 21:40:48 +10:00
Jim Warner
51aef8f769 related: adapt for changes in result types, <PIDS> api
This patch is the response to changes in <pids> types.

These additional modifications were also incorporated.

. ps -------------------------------------------------
pr_wname was eliminated as it just duplicated pr_wchan
pr_wchan referenced WCHAN_ADDR in error, vs WCHAN_NAME
pr_nwchan referenced WCHAN_NAME, not proper WCHAN_ADDR

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2016-08-01 20:09:18 +10:00
Jim Warner
d5c5051fb3 top: provide for expanded potential displayable fields
This commit provides for raising the total displayable
fields from its current 70 to 86. It also bumps the id
in an rcfile representing the version from 'i' to 'j'.

The increase in number of fields will make sharing the
rcfile with an older top, once it's saved, impossible.

These changes are being done via a #define rather than
hard coded so any such sharing will still be possible.

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2016-08-01 20:09:18 +10:00
Jim Warner
612f36189e related: change for lost 'PROCPS_' enumerator prefixes
With this patch we've completed a progression toward a
standard approach to naming conventions which follows:

* Only functions will begin with that 'procps_' prefix
. ........................................... examples
. procps_vmstat_get ()
. procps_diskstats_select ()
- ----------------------------------------------------

* Exposed structures begin with the module/header name
. ........................................... examples
. struct pids_info
. struct stat_reaped
- ----------------------------------------------------

* Item enumerators begin like structs, but capitalized
. ........................................... examples
. VMSTAT_COMPACT_FAIL
. MEMINFO_DELTA_ACTIVE

[ slabinfo varies slightly due to some item variants ]
. SLABINFO_extra
. SLABS_SIZE_ACTIVE
. SLABNODE_OBJS_PER_SLAB
[ could cure with a prefix of SLABINFO, but too long ]
- ----------------------------------------------------

* Other enumerators work exactly like item enumerators
. ........................................... examples
. PIDS_SORT_ASCEND
. STAT_REAP_CPUS_AND_NODES
- ----------------------------------------------------

* Macros and constants begin just like the enumerators
. ........................................... examples
. #define SLABINFO_GET
. #define DISKSTATS_TYPE_DISK
- ----------------------------------------------------

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2016-07-26 20:49:44 +10:00
Jim Warner
d7cbf3448f related: adapt to changes in 'context' structure names
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2016-07-26 20:47:50 +10:00
Jim Warner
634d115cca top: make compilation possible under netbsd-curses too
Whoa, I had never considered an alternative to ncurses
until the issue referenced below was raised. Thus, I'm
surprised to find that 'tparm' was the only impediment
to ultimately utilizing this alternate curses library.

And, while we could have substituted that non-standard
'tiparm' with only 2 arguments, we'll utilize the full
parms compliment in the spirit of that original patch.

Frankly, the task of developing an alternative library
to that ncurses implementation really boggles my mind.

Congratulations to rofl0r, whoever that masked man is.

Reference(s):
. issue raised
https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/issues/38
. netbsd-curses home
https://github.com/sabotage-linux/netbsd-curses

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2016-07-17 09:31:57 +10:00
Jim Warner
c767adf974 top: due to <STAT> api, relocate that NUMA stderr hack
So as to avoid that potential (and inappropriate) numa
library spew to stderr, plus some resulting corruption
of top's display, top buffered stderr output until the
program ended. However, under our new library, timings
have changed meaning the corruption could occur again.

So this patch just relocates the stderr redirect to an
earlier startup point ahead of the 1st call to <STAT>.

[ plus we also fiddle just a tad with a few comments ]

Reference(s):
. original libnuma fix
commit 35dc6dcc49
. original redhat discussion
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=998678

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2016-07-17 08:49:48 +10:00
Jim Warner
62abd1d88b top: eliminate 2 author sections from the man document
We'll follow Craig's lead and whack some author stuff.

[ and we'll honor the SEE ALSO guideline for periods ]
[ but essentially ignore all the other busybody crap ]
[ which, to be honest, we pretty much follow already ]

[ actually, if you're told to follow a certain style ]
[ in program examples, you've gone way past busybody ]
[ crap and have entered the realm of anal retentive! ]

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2016-07-06 21:36:37 +10:00
Jim Warner
a2c79b6237 misc: adapt others to struct layout change, <PIDS> api
With the change to struct pids_fetch, we'll just trade
some dot ('.') code for some pointer to ('->') syntax.

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2016-06-28 21:11:25 +10:00
Jim Warner
93ae9ac718 top: some miscellaneous tweaks to code and/or comments
This patch contains the following collection of stuff:

. an identifier Pids_read is now Pids_reap like <stat>
. eliminate redundant param from the <stat> VAL macros
. eliminate the unneeded tailored <stat> SUM_VAL macro
. corrected comment spelling for 'gouped' to 'grouped'

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2016-06-17 21:44:29 +10:00
Jim Warner
5ce94f9bb0 top: improved that #define PRETENDNOCAP implementation
This development (only) define can be used to turn top
into a simple text program, disabling termcap effects.
But input (at screen bottom) suffers from a line wrap.

So, this commit just makes the input prompt processing
a little more effective by adding one leading newline.

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2016-06-17 21:44:29 +10:00
Jim Warner
61647f1b95 top: swat nasty obscure bug associated with numa nodes
When experimenting with two macro constants for stat.c
(#define STACKS_INCR & #define NEWOLD_INCR), a bug was
revealed in top, only surfacing if both were set to 1.

At those settings an absolute minimum number of stacks
would be allocated for CPUs & numa NODEs. This in turn
led top to overrun the lessor number of nodes since he
used the cpu index when accessing those numa stack(s).

What he should have been accessing was the cpu stacks.

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2016-06-17 21:44:29 +10:00
Jim Warner
b09014a7b6 top: share the rcfile between master & newlib branches
Since the decision was made to also add that Linux-4.5
support (was only in this newlib branch) to our master
branch, a tweak to newlib's top is necessary. In order
to share the rcfile between them, any fields unique to
a branch must appear last in it's list of enumerators.

And the troublesome field in question above is CGNAME.

It doesn't matter if a unique field is on or off, only
that it, as a higher enum/char, appear after all other
shared fields. Otherwise one risks the 'corrupt' error
message from the top without that field or the display
of the wrong column in the top with that unique field.

[ and strictly speaking, the changes under top_nls.c ]
[ were technically not really necessary. however, we ]
[ choose to maintain strict ordering via enum value. ]

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2016-06-09 20:51:06 +10:00
Jim Warner
5f2570c384 misc: adapt pgms to pids_sort_order change, <PIDS> api
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2016-06-09 20:51:06 +10:00
Jim Warner
0196a4e350 top: just miscellaneous tweaks to code and/or comments
This patch represents the following minor adjustments:

. the official PROCPS_MEMINFO_VAL macro has become the
basis for our own abbreviated MEM_VAL derivative macro
just like was done for all the other newlib interfaces

. it felt like time to change those forest_?? function
names while maintaining their special relationships to
one another (alphabetic, with each 1 longer than prev)

. and some whitespace was altered and some lines added

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2016-06-07 21:04:43 +10:00
Jim Warner
911083bf76 ps+top: adapt for changes in results types, <PIDS> api
I've got nothing to add to the commit message but that
doesn't mean I won't produce perfectly justified text.

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2016-05-16 19:58:20 +10:00
Jim Warner
56def1cbac misc: adapt others to changes in interface, <PIDS> api
I've got nothing to add to the commit message but that
doesn't mean I won't produce perfectly justified text.

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2016-05-16 19:58:20 +10:00
Jim Warner
d94af0d07a misc: adapted other programs to changes, <MEMINFO> api
This patch just brings *most* other programs into line
with those changes recently made in the <meminfo> API.

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2016-05-12 07:51:10 +10:00
Jim Warner
6c2b95872f top: adapted this program to those changes, <STAT> api
This guy is the real beneficiary of the new <stat> API
especially when it comes to the DELTA items which were
really the only values of interest (beyond some id's).

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2016-05-08 21:12:22 +10:00
Jim Warner
9cdbe5b80f top: miscellaneous accumulated tweaks of code/comments
This commit contains the following changes, which were
prompted by a coverity analysis which Craig initiated:

. comment typo predicting 'String not null terminated'
. eliminate 'Logically dead code' from insp_make_row()

And this tweak unrelated to coverity is also included:

. use more modern (recommended) approach for time call

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2016-05-08 21:12:22 +10:00
Jim Warner
f6d6d305e7 top: adapt source to changes with includes, <STAT> api
All other programs were able to accommodate the change
in name from readstat.h to stat.h without modification
because they were all using that procps.h header file.

Well now top can too (providing you ignore a comment).

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2016-04-26 22:27:16 +10:00
Jim Warner
714ea69c6d misc: adapt others to a changed identifier, <pids> API
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2016-04-19 20:38:18 +10:00
Jim Warner
9fb09268bb top: some minor tweaks against a few of Craig's tweaks
Rather than importing NORETURN & MALLOC, it feels more
natural to use the native gcc attribute for NORETURN &
eliminate the use of a questionable MALLOC altogether.

Reference(s):
commit ccb6ae8de1

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2016-04-17 09:12:02 +10:00
Jim Warner
5d0431891a top: extend 'zero suppression' to out-of-memory fields
Now that the conditional OOMEM_ENABLE has been removed
and more attention recently paid to the 2 oomem fields
it was revealed that Rc.zero_suppress didn't extend to
them. So this commit will just correct that oversight.

And while we're at it, we'll also extend zero suppress
to that NI (nice value) field, which already should've
had it. Plus we trade those namespaces custom suppress
logic for our now slightly enhanced make_num function.

Reference(s):
. removal of misguided OOMEM_ENABLE
commit 64238730fa
. zero suppression only recently added to namespaces
commit b2853ed117

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2016-04-17 09:12:02 +10:00
Jim Warner
41661e03dc top: normalize 2 former SUSE only out-of-memory fields
Now that the conditional OOMEM_ENABLE has been removed
and all users exposed to those 'out of memory' fields,
it's about time we added them to the top man document.

But before doing so, it's long past time that they are
normalized to at last remedy this kind of foolishness:

. excessive width on that oomem score itself (8 vs. 4)
. some potentially confusing names inherited from suse

Reference(s):
. removal of misguided OOMEM_ENABLE
commit 64238730fa

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2016-04-17 09:12:02 +10:00
Craig Small
ccb6ae8de1 library: cleanup of library includes
The includes used to define a lot of things a library include
should not. It was also a bit messy what was exposed in the library
and what was not.

get_pid_digits -> procps_pid_length and exported correctly

MALLOC attribute move into relevant .c files
NORETURN attribute moved to relevant .c, not used in library
PURE attribute removed, it wasn't used
KLONG/KLF/STRTOUKL were fixed for long, so now just use long

HIDDEN attribute removed. It was for 3 functions. The PROCPS_EXPORT
seems to do the same (opposite) thing.

likely/unlikely removed from most places, its highly debateable
this does anything useful as CPUs have gotten smarter about branches.

Re-arranged the includes, ALL external programs should just #include
<proc/procps.h> then proc/procps.h includes headers for files that
have exported functions. procps.h and the headers it includes should
not use items that are not exportable (e.g. hidden functions or
macros) they go in procps-private.h
2016-04-16 17:03:57 +10:00
Jim Warner
91ee02f076 top: man page now includes resident memory enhancement
Beginning with linux-4.5, the following new fields are
being added under that /proc/<pid>/status pseudo file:
 . RssAnon - size of resident anonymous memory
 . RssFile - size of resident file mappings
 . RssShmem - size of resident shared memory

This patch just represents the initial library and top
support, sharing a commit message with 2 more patches.

p.s. locked resident memory support was also added but
isn't directly related to the kernel 4.5 enhancements.

Reference(s):
commit 1f8e41d019

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2016-04-14 21:03:03 +10:00
Jim Warner
46458ab6b7 top: exploit new linux-4.5 resident memory enhancement
Beginning with linux-4.5, the following new fields are
being added under that /proc/<pid>/status pseudo file:
 . RssAnon - size of resident anonymous memory
 . RssFile - size of resident file mappings
 . RssShmem - size of resident shared memory

This patch just represents the initial library and top
support, sharing a commit message with 2 more patches.

p.s. locked resident memory support was also added but
isn't directly related to the kernel 4.5 enhancements.

Reference(s):
commit 1f8e41d019

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2016-04-14 21:03:03 +10:00
Jim Warner
1f8e41d019 top: add additional memory information to the man page
[ patch has been adapted expressly for newlib branch ]

In response to Issue #21, the commit referred to below
provided some much needed improvements and corrections
to topic `3a. DESCRIPTIONS of Fields' in the man page.
However, it assumed a reader possessed much background
knowledge that may not, in truth, actually be present.

So without, hopefully, insulting anyone's intelligence
this patch offers an expanded discussion of some terms
and concepts within a separate section under OVERVIEW.

[ plus it affords an opportunity to incorporate that ]
[ extremely useful table from Florent Bruneau's post ]

Reference(s):
commit 6a36bd7afd
https://techtalk.intersec.com/2013/07/memory-part-1-memory-types/

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2016-03-23 22:24:38 +11:00
Jim Warner
6a36bd7afd top: improve/correct several memory fields in man page
Due to quirks in kernel memory management plus limited
information available from /proc/<pid>/status & statm,
some of the top resident memory fields were capable of
exceeding available physical memory. So this commit is
a bit of a band-aid until the kernel has been changed.

Such a change appears to be on the horizon in the form
of three new fields to be added to /proc/<pid>/status.
While not preventing 'resident' memory from apparently
exceeding physical memory, the new fields will help to
clarify any such contingency, if/when we exploit them.

Reference(s):
. original post by Samuel Thibault
https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/issues/21
. informative memory analysis
https://techtalk.intersec.com/2013/07/memory-part-1-memory-types/
https://techtalk.intersec.com/2013/07/memory-part-2-understanding-process-memory/
. kernel changes to /proc/<pid>/status
commit 8cee852ec53fb530f10ccabf1596734209ae336b
commit eca56ff906bdd0239485e8b47154a6e73dd9a2f3

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2016-03-15 21:29:59 +11:00