Re: [PATCH] docs: update THP admin guide about non-tmpfs filesystem support

From: Bagas Sanjaya
Date: Thu Apr 03 2025 - 06:50:39 EST


On Thu, Apr 03, 2025 at 12:38:05PM +0200, Pankaj Raghav (Samsung) wrote:
> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
> index dff8d5985f0f..01b7ce90d693 100644
> --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
> @@ -12,8 +12,8 @@ using huge pages for the backing of virtual memory with huge pages
> that supports the automatic promotion and demotion of page sizes and
> without the shortcomings of hugetlbfs.
>
> -Currently THP only works for anonymous memory mappings and tmpfs/shmem.
> -But in the future it can expand to other filesystems.
> +Currently, THP only works for anonymous memory mappings, tmpfs/shmem and
> +filesystems that support large folios.
>
> .. note::
> in the examples below we presume that the basic page size is 4K and
> @@ -463,6 +463,10 @@ fields for each mapping. (Note that AnonHugePages only applies to traditional
> PMD-sized THP for historical reasons and should have been called
> AnonHugePmdMapped).
>
> +The number of PMD-sized transparent huge pages currently used by
> +filesystem data (page cache) is available by reading the FileHugePages field
> +in ``/proc/meminfo``.
> +
> The number of file transparent huge pages mapped to userspace is available
> by reading ShmemPmdMapped and ShmemHugePages fields in ``/proc/meminfo``.
> To identify what applications are mapping file transparent huge pages, it
>
> base-commit: f0a16f5363325cc8d9382471cdc7b654c53254c9

The wording looks good, thanks!

Reviewed-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@xxxxxxxxx>

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