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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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| What:		/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/ | ||||
| Date:		April 2024 | ||||
| Contact:	Linux memory management mailing list <linux-mm@kvack.org> | ||||
| Description: | ||||
| 		/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/ contains a number of files and | ||||
| 		subdirectories, | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| 			- defrag | ||||
| 			- enabled | ||||
| 			- hpage_pmd_size | ||||
| 			- khugepaged | ||||
| 			- shmem_enabled | ||||
| 			- use_zero_page | ||||
| 			- subdirectories of the form hugepages-<size>kB, where <size> | ||||
| 			  is the page size of the hugepages supported by the kernel/CPU | ||||
| 			  combination. | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| 		See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst for details. | ||||
|  | @ -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 | ||||
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