[PATCH 2/2] mm: add docs for per-order mTHP split counters

From: Lance Yang
Date: Wed Apr 24 2024 - 09:53:25 EST


This commit introduces documentation for mTHP split counters in
transhuge.rst.

Signed-off-by: Lance Yang <ioworker0@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst | 16 ++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
index f82300b9193f..35d574a531c8 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
@@ -475,6 +475,22 @@ anon_swpout_fallback
Usually because failed to allocate some continuous swap space
for the huge page.

+split_page
+ is incremented every time a huge page is split into base
+ pages. This can happen for a variety of reasons but a common
+ reason is that a huge page is old and is being reclaimed.
+ This action implies splitting all PMD/PTE mapped with the huge page.
+
+split_page_failed
+ is incremented if kernel fails to split huge
+ page. This can happen if the page was pinned by somebody.
+
+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.
+
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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