Commit f9719a03 authored by Kirill A. Shutemov's avatar Kirill A. Shutemov Committed by Linus Torvalds
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thp, vmstats: count deferred split events 



Count how many times we put a THP in split queue.  Currently, it happens
on partial unmap of a THP.

Rapidly growing value can indicate that an application behaves
unfriendly wrt THP: often fault in huge page and then unmap part of it.
This leads to unnecessary memory fragmentation and the application may
require tuning.

The event also can help with debugging kernel [mis-]behaviour.

Signed-off-by: default avatarKirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 0a6b76dd

Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt

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@@ -229,6 +229,11 @@ thp_split_page is incremented every time a huge page is split into base 
thp_split_page_failed is is incremented if kernel fails to split huge

	page. This can happen if the page was pinned by somebody.



thp_deferred_split_page is incremented when a huge page is put onto split

	queue. This happens when a huge page is partially unmapped and

	splitting it would free up some memory. Pages on split queue are

	going to be split under memory pressure.



thp_split_pmd is incremented every time a PMD split into table of PTEs.

	This can happen, for instance, when application calls mprotect() or

	munmap() on part of huge page. It doesn't split huge page, only

include/linux/vm_event_item.h

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@@ -72,6 +72,7 @@ enum vm_event_item { PGPGIN, PGPGOUT, PSWPIN, PSWPOUT, 
		THP_COLLAPSE_ALLOC_FAILED,

		THP_SPLIT_PAGE,

		THP_SPLIT_PAGE_FAILED,

		THP_DEFERRED_SPLIT_PAGE,

		THP_SPLIT_PMD,

		THP_ZERO_PAGE_ALLOC,

		THP_ZERO_PAGE_ALLOC_FAILED,

mm/huge_memory.c

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@@ -3455,6 +3455,7 @@ void deferred_split_huge_page(struct page *page) 


	spin_lock_irqsave(&pgdata->split_queue_lock, flags);

	if (list_empty(page_deferred_list(page))) {

		count_vm_event(THP_DEFERRED_SPLIT_PAGE);

		list_add_tail(page_deferred_list(page), &pgdata->split_queue);

		pgdata->split_queue_len++;

	}

mm/vmstat.c

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@@ -848,6 +848,7 @@ const char * const vmstat_text[] = { 
	"thp_collapse_alloc_failed",

	"thp_split_page",

	"thp_split_page_failed",

	"thp_deferred_split_page",

	"thp_split_pmd",

	"thp_zero_page_alloc",

	"thp_zero_page_alloc_failed",

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