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authorAlex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com>2020-12-15 04:09:02 +0100
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-12-15 21:13:42 +0100
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parentmm/vmalloc: Fix unlock order in s_stop() (diff)
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docs/vm: remove unused 3 items explanation for /proc/vmstat
Commit 5647bc293ab1 ("mm: compaction: Move migration fail/success stats to migrate.c"), removed 3 items in /proc/vmstat. but the docs still has their explanation. let's remove them. "compact_blocks_moved", "compact_pages_moved", "compact_pagemigrate_failed", Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1605520282-51993-1-git-send-email-alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com> Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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@@ -401,21 +401,6 @@ compact_fail
is incremented if the system tries to compact memory
but failed.
-compact_pages_moved
- is incremented each time a page is moved. If
- this value is increasing rapidly, it implies that the system
- is copying a lot of data to satisfy the huge page allocation.
- It is possible that the cost of copying exceeds any savings
- from reduced TLB misses.
-
-compact_pagemigrate_failed
- is incremented when the underlying mechanism
- for moving a page failed.
-
-compact_blocks_moved
- is incremented each time memory compaction examines
- a huge page aligned range of pages.
-
It is possible to establish how long the stalls were using the function
tracer to record how long was spent in __alloc_pages_nodemask and
using the mm_page_alloc tracepoint to identify which allocations were