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authorLiu Shixin <liushixin2@huawei.com>2022-09-09 05:16:53 +0300
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2022-10-04 00:03:08 +0300
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mm/huge_memory: prevent THP_ZERO_PAGE_ALLOC increased twice
A user who reads THP_ZERO_PAGE_ALLOC may be more concerned about the huge zero pages that are really allocated for thp. It is misleading to increase THP_ZERO_PAGE_ALLOC twice if two threads call get_huge_zero_page concurrently. Don't increase the value if the huge page is not really used. Update Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst to suit. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220909021653.3371879-1-liushixin2@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Liu Shixin <liushixin2@huawei.com> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
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--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
@@ -366,10 +366,9 @@ thp_split_pmd
page table entry.
thp_zero_page_alloc
- is incremented every time a huge zero page is
- successfully allocated. It includes allocations which where
- dropped due race with other allocation. Note, it doesn't count
- every map of the huge zero page, only its allocation.
+ is incremented every time a huge zero page used for thp is
+ successfully allocated. Note, it doesn't count every map of
+ the huge zero page, only its allocation.
thp_zero_page_alloc_failed
is incremented if kernel fails to allocate