Re: [RFC PATCH 02/12] khugepaged: Generalize alloc_charge_folio()

[Christoph Lameter (Ampere)]

On Tue, 17 Dec 2024, Ryan Roberts wrote:

> We previously decided that all existing THP stats would continue to only count
> PMD-sized THP for fear of breaking userspace in subtle ways, and instead would
> introduce new mTHP stats that can count for each order. We already have
> MTHP_STAT_ANON_FAULT_ALLOC and MTHP_STAT_ANON_FAULT_FALLBACK (amongst others) so
> these new stats fit the pattern well, IMHO.

Could we move all the stats somewhere into sysfs where we can get them by
page order? /proc/vmstat keeps getting new counters.