Android提供了一个名为meminfo的小工具帮助应用分析自身的内存占用，并且在4.4还新增了memtrack HAL模块，SoC厂商通过实现memtrack模块，让meminfo可以获取GPU相关的一些内存分配状况。了解meminfo的实现，对我们更深入了解应用的内存占用状况是很有帮助的。而这篇文章的目的就是分析Android 4.4 meminfo的内部实现源码，让开发者通过这些信息可以更了解自己应用的内存占用状况。
在控制台输入命令”adb shell dumpsys meminfo YOUR-PACKAGE-NAME”，可以看到类似下图的结果：
** MEMINFO in pid 14120 [com.UCMobile.test] **
Pss Private Private Swapped Heap Heap Heap
Total Dirty Clean Dirty Size Alloc Free
------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------
Native Heap 187886 187872 0 0 325232 174093 38594
Dalvik Heap 24801 24444 0 0 41476 35899 5577
Dalvik Other 700 700 0 0
Stack 508 508 0 0
Other dev 33564 32600 4 0
.so mmap 9019 1244 7268 0
.apk mmap 101 0 16 0
.ttf mmap 1330 0 696 0
.dex mmap 2248 0 2248 0
code mmap 985 0 188 0
image mmap 1182 908 12 0
Other mmap 130 4 108 0
Graphics 25504 25504 0 0
GL 2196 2196 0 0
Unknown 32476 32476 0 0
TOTAL 322630 308456 10540 0 366708 209992 44171
实际的调用代码入口在android.os.Debug.java和对应的CPP文件android_os_Debug.cpp，Debug.java的getMeminfo方法实际上调用了android_os_Debug.cpp的android_os_Debug_getDirtyPagesPid方法。
static void android_os_Debug_getDirtyPagesPid(JNIEnv *env, jobject clazz,
jint pid, jobject object)
{
stats_t stats[_NUM_HEAP];
memset(&stats, 0, sizeof(stats));
load_maps(pid, stats);
struct graphics_memory_pss graphics_mem;
if (read_memtrack_memory(pid, &graphics_mem) == 0) {
...
}
...
}
static void load_maps(int pid, stats_t* stats)
{
char tmp[128];
FILE *fp;
sprintf(tmp, "/proc/%d/smaps", pid);
fp = fopen(tmp, "r");
if (fp == 0) return;
read_mapinfo(fp, stats);
fclose(fp);
}
从上面的代码可以看到，android_os_Debug_getDirtyPagesPid方法先调用了load_maps方法，而load_maps方法要做的事情也很简单，它打开/proc/PID/smaps虚拟文件，读取里面的信息，在已ROOT的设备上，我们可以通过“adb shell cat /proce/PID/smaps”直接将这个虚拟文件的信息打印在控制台上。
80ff5000-810f2000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [stack:12211] Size: 1012 kB Rss: 4 kB Pss: 4 kB ... 81100000-811a4000 rw-s 000f4000 00:0b 6285 /dev/kgsl-3d0 Size: 656 kB Rss: 652 kB Pss: 352 kB ... 811d1000-811e0000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [anon:libc_malloc] Size: 60 kB Rss: 60 kB Pss: 60 kB ... Name: [anon:libc_malloc]
“adb shell cat /proce/PID/smaps”输出的信息如上图所示，它实际上是应用的userspace地址空间的内存分配表，记录了应用分配的每一块内存的地址，类别，大小等信息，而load_maps方法调用read_mapinfo方法从这个表里面读出每一块内存的分配信息，分类进行累加，得出Native Heap，Dalvik Heap等各个类别的内存占用。
但是应用所使用的全部内存里面，有一些内存块是不映射到进程的userspace地址空间的（主要是GPU所使用的内存），这些内存块的信息在smaps里面无法找到，所以在Android 4.4里面新增了一个memtrack的HAL模块由SoC厂商实现，如果SoC厂商实现了memtrack模块，meminfo则可以通过libmemtrack的调用获取一些跟GPU相关的内存使用信息。所以我们看到android_os_Debug_getDirtyPagesPid方法通过调用read_memtrack_memory方法来读取Graphics，GL这两项的内存使用信息。
/*
* Uses libmemtrack to retrieve graphics memory that the process is using.
* Any graphics memory reported in /proc/pid/smaps is not included here.
*/
static int read_memtrack_memory(struct memtrack_proc* p, int pid,
struct graphics_memory_pss* graphics_mem)
{
int err = memtrack_proc_get(p, pid);
...
ssize_t pss = memtrack_proc_graphics_pss(p);
...
graphics_mem->graphics = pss / 1024;
pss = memtrack_proc_gl_pss(p);
...
graphics_mem->gl = pss / 1024;
pss = memtrack_proc_other_pss(p);
...
graphics_mem->other = pss / 1024;
return 0;
}
read_memtrack_memory方法的实现如上图所示，它读取了Graphics，GL，Other这三类内存信息，而这三个类别的定义在hardware/memtrack.h里面。
/*
* The Memory Tracker HAL is designed to return information about device-specific
* memory usage. The primary goal is to be able to track memory that is not
* trackable in any other way, for example texture memory that is allocated by
* a process, but not mapped in to that process' address space.
* A secondary goal is to be able to categorize memory used by a process into
* GL, graphics, etc. All memory sizes should be in real memory usage,
* accounting for stride, bit depth, rounding up to page size, etc.
*
* A process collecting memory statistics will call getMemory for each
* combination of pid and memory type. For each memory type that it recognizes
* the HAL should fill out an array of memtrack_record structures breaking
* down the statistics of that memory type as much as possible. For example,
* getMemory(, MEMTRACK_TYPE_GL) might return:
* { { 4096, ACCOUNTED | PRIVATE | SYSTEM },
* { 40960, UNACCOUNTED | PRIVATE | SYSTEM },
* { 8192, ACCOUNTED | PRIVATE | DEDICATED },
* { 8192, UNACCOUNTED | PRIVATE | DEDICATED } }
* If the HAL could not differentiate between SYSTEM and DEDICATED memory, it
* could return:
* { { 12288, ACCOUNTED | PRIVATE },
* { 49152, UNACCOUNTED | PRIVATE } }
*
* Memory should not overlap between types. For example, a graphics buffer
* that has been mapped into the GPU as a surface should show up when
* MEMTRACK_TYPE_GRAPHICS is requested, and not when MEMTRACK_TYPE_GL
* is requested.
*/
enum memtrack_type {
MEMTRACK_TYPE_OTHER = 0,
MEMTRACK_TYPE_GL = 1,
MEMTRACK_TYPE_GRAPHICS = 2,
MEMTRACK_TYPE_MULTIMEDIA = 3,
MEMTRACK_TYPE_CAMERA = 4,
MEMTRACK_NUM_TYPES,
};
Graphics对应了MEMTRACK_TYPE_GRAPHICS，GL对应了MEMTRACK_TYPE_GL，而Other实际上是MEMTRACK_TYPE_OTHER，MEMTRACK_TYPE_MULTIMEDIA，MEMTRACK_TYPE_CAMERA这三项之和。memtrack是由SoC厂商实现的，在AOSP的源码里面我们可以找到高通的实现源码，在msm8974/libmemtrack/kgsl.c里面。
int kgsl_memtrack_get_memory(pid_t pid, enum memtrack_type type,
struct memtrack_record *records,
size_t *num_records)
{
...
sprintf(tmp, "/d/kgsl/proc/%d/mem", pid);
fp = fopen(tmp, "r");
...
if (type == MEMTRACK_TYPE_GL) {
sprintf(tmp, "/proc/%d/smaps", pid);
smaps_fp = fopen(tmp, "r");
...
}
while (1) {
unsigned long uaddr;
unsigned long size;
char line_type[7];
int ret;
if (fgets(line, sizeof(line), fp) == NULL) {
break;
}
/* Format:
* gpuaddr useraddr size id flags type usage sglen
* 545ba000 545ba000 4096 1 ----p gpumem arraybuffer 1
*/
ret = sscanf(line, "%*x %lx %lu %*d %*s %6s %*s %*d\n",
&uaddr, &size, line_type);
if (ret != 3) {
continue;
}
if (type == MEMTRACK_TYPE_GL && strcmp(line_type, "gpumem") == 0) {
bool accounted = false;
/*
* We need to cross reference the user address against smaps,
* luckily both are sorted.
*/
while (smaps_addr <= uaddr) {
unsigned long start;
unsigned long end;
unsigned long smaps_size;
if (fgets(line, sizeof(line), smaps_fp) == NULL) {
break;
}
if (sscanf(line, "%8lx-%8lx", &start, &end) == 2) {
smaps_addr = start;
continue;
}
if (smaps_addr != uaddr) {
continue;
}
if (sscanf(line, "Rss: %lu kB", &smaps_size) == 1) {
if (smaps_size) {
accounted = true;
accounted_size += size;
break;
}
}
}
if (!accounted) {
unaccounted_size += size;
}
} else if (type == MEMTRACK_TYPE_GRAPHICS && strcmp(line_type, "ion") == 0) {
unaccounted_size += size;
}
}
...
}
kgsl_memtrack_get_memory是memtrack的getMemory方法的具体实现，我们可以看到它实际上是读取一张内部的GPU内存分配表的信息（虚拟文件/d/kgsl/proc/PID/mem），在已ROOT的设备上，我们可以通过“adb shell cat /d/kgsl/proc/PID/mem”将这张内存分配表的信息打印到控制台上，如下图所示：
gpuaddr useraddr size id flags type usage sglen 7565e000 00000000 4096 1 ----p gpumem arraybuffer 1 756bc000 00000000 65536 2 -r--p gpumem command 16 756cd000 00000000 65536 3 -r--p gpumem command 16 756de000 00000000 65536 4 -r--p gpumem command 16 756fb000 00000000 4096 5 ----p gpumem gl 1 75fe2000 00000000 262144 6 ----p gpumem gl 64 76023000 00000000 8192 7 ----p gpumem gl 2 76026000 00000000 8192 8 ----p gpumem gl 2 76029000 00000000 4096 9 ----p gpumem texture 1 ... 94d71000 00000000 131072 362 ----p gpumem vertexarraybuff 32 94da0000 00000000 667648 176 --l-p gpumem texture 163 94e44000 00000000 131072 363 ----p gpumem any(0) 32 94e65000 00000000 131072 364 ----p gpumem any(0) 32 c0000000 00000000 17268736 31 --L-- ion egl_image 4216 c1100000 00000000 8257536 36 --L-- ion egl_surface 21 c1900000 00000000 8257536 164 --L-- ion egl_surface 21 c2100000 00000000 8257536 175 --L-- ion egl_surface 21
其中ion类型（由ION内存分配器分配的内存）的内存块统计到Graphics类别里面，从上图我们可以看到有三块egl_surface，它们对应应用所使用的窗口的三个Buffer，还有一个egl_image暂时不清楚用途，这些都是应用启动后Android自动分配的。gpumem类型的内存块统计到GL类别里面，包括GL里面的纹理（texture），各种shader，vertex buffer等等。另外，因为有些内存块映射到了userspace，有些则没有映射，所以映射到userspace的内存块会被标记为accounted，避免meminfo重复计数，meminfo最终显示的Graphics和GL的内存值是哪些没有映射到userspace的内存块的大小之和。