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authorBarry Song <v-songbaohua@oppo.com>2024-04-12 14:48:57 +0300
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2024-05-06 03:53:36 +0300
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mm: add docs for per-order mTHP counters and transhuge_page ABI
This patch includes documentation for mTHP counters and an ABI file for sys-kernel-mm-transparent-hugepage, which appears to have been missing for some time. [v-songbaohua@oppo.com: fix the name and unexpected indentation] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240415054538.17071-1-21cnbao@gmail.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240412114858.407208-4-21cnbao@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@oppo.com> Reviewed-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org> Cc: Domenico Cerasuolo <cerasuolodomenico@gmail.com> Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com> Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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@@ -447,6 +447,34 @@ 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