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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst index 04eb45a2f940..076443cc10a6 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst @@ -278,7 +278,8 @@ collapsed, resulting fewer pages being collapsed into THPs, and lower memory access performance. ``max_ptes_shared`` specifies how many pages can be shared across multiple -processes. Exceeding the number would block the collapse:: +processes. khugepaged might treat pages of THPs as shared if any page of +that THP is shared. Exceeding the number would block the collapse:: /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/max_ptes_shared @@ -369,7 +370,7 @@ monitor how successfully the system is providing huge pages for use. thp_fault_alloc is incremented every time a huge page is successfully - allocated to handle a page fault. + allocated and charged to handle a page fault. thp_collapse_alloc is incremented by khugepaged when it has found @@ -377,7 +378,7 @@ thp_collapse_alloc successfully allocated a new huge page to store the data. thp_fault_fallback - is incremented if a page fault fails to allocate + is incremented if a page fault fails to allocate or charge a huge page and instead falls back to using small pages. thp_fault_fallback_charge @@ -447,6 +448,34 @@ thp_swpout_fallback Usually because failed to allocate some continuous swap space for the huge page. +In /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/hugepages-<size>kB/stats, There are +also individual counters for each huge page size, which can be utilized to +monitor the system's effectiveness in providing huge pages for usage. Each +counter has its own corresponding file. + +anon_fault_alloc + is incremented every time a huge page is successfully + allocated and charged to handle a page fault. + +anon_fault_fallback + is incremented if a page fault fails to allocate or charge + a huge page and instead falls back to using huge pages with + lower orders or small pages. + +anon_fault_fallback_charge + is incremented if a page fault fails to charge a huge page and + instead falls back to using huge pages with lower orders or + small pages even though the allocation was successful. + +anon_swpout + is incremented every time a huge page is swapped out in one + piece without splitting. + +anon_swpout_fallback + is incremented if a huge page has to be split before swapout. + Usually because failed to allocate some continuous swap space + for the huge page. + As the system ages, allocating huge pages may be expensive as the system uses memory compaction to copy data around memory to free a huge page for use. There are some counters in ``/proc/vmstat`` to help |