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| author | Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> | 2024-07-10 11:55:01 +0200 |
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| committer | Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> | 2024-07-13 00:52:23 +0200 |
| commit | 63d9866ab01ffd0d0835d5564107283a4afc0a38 (patch) | |
| tree | c29ba344e3952f9d6ddf67362b5d72a77b743f8c /Documentation/admin-guide | |
| parent | mm: swap_state: use folio_alloc_mpol() in __read_swap_cache_async() (diff) | |
| download | linux-63d9866ab01ffd0d0835d5564107283a4afc0a38.tar.xz linux-63d9866ab01ffd0d0835d5564107283a4afc0a38.zip | |
mm: shmem: rename mTHP shmem counters
The legacy PMD-sized THP counters at /proc/vmstat include thp_file_alloc,
thp_file_fallback and thp_file_fallback_charge, which rather confusingly
refer to shmem THP and do not include any other types of file pages. This
is inconsistent since in most other places in the kernel, THP counters are
explicitly separated for anon, shmem and file flavours. However, we are
stuck with it since it constitutes a user ABI.
Recently, commit 66f44583f9b6 ("mm: shmem: add mTHP counters for anonymous
shmem") added equivalent mTHP stats for shmem, keeping the same "file_"
prefix in the names. But in future, we may want to add extra stats to
cover actual file pages, at which point, it would all become very
confusing.
So let's take the opportunity to rename these new counters "shmem_" before
the change makes it upstream and the ABI becomes immutable. While we are
at it, let's improve the documentation for the legacy counters to make it
clear that they count shmem pages only.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240710095503.3193901-1-ryan.roberts@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Lance Yang <ioworker0@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Daniel Gomez <da.gomez@samsung.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/admin-guide')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst | 29 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst index fe237825b95c..058485daf186 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst @@ -412,20 +412,23 @@ thp_collapse_alloc_failed the allocation. thp_file_alloc - is incremented every time a file huge page is successfully - allocated. + is incremented every time a shmem huge page is successfully + allocated (Note that despite being named after "file", the counter + measures only shmem). thp_file_fallback - is incremented if a file huge page is attempted to be allocated - but fails and instead falls back to using small pages. + is incremented if a shmem huge page is attempted to be allocated + but fails and instead falls back to using small pages. (Note that + despite being named after "file", the counter measures only shmem). thp_file_fallback_charge - is incremented if a file huge page cannot be charged and instead + is incremented if a shmem huge page cannot be charged and instead falls back to using small pages even though the allocation was - successful. + successful. (Note that despite being named after "file", the + counter measures only shmem). thp_file_mapped - is incremented every time a file huge page is mapped into + is incremented every time a file or shmem huge page is mapped into user address space. thp_split_page @@ -496,16 +499,16 @@ swpout_fallback Usually because failed to allocate some continuous swap space for the huge page. -file_alloc - is incremented every time a file huge page is successfully +shmem_alloc + is incremented every time a shmem huge page is successfully allocated. -file_fallback - is incremented if a file huge page is attempted to be allocated +shmem_fallback + is incremented if a shmem huge page is attempted to be allocated but fails and instead falls back to using small pages. -file_fallback_charge - is incremented if a file huge page cannot be charged and instead +shmem_fallback_charge + is incremented if a shmem huge page cannot be charged and instead falls back to using small pages even though the allocation was successful. |