Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] docs: clarify THP admin guide about (File|Shmem)PmdMapped and ShmemHugePage
From: Bagas Sanjaya
Date: Fri Apr 04 2025 - 08:44:24 EST
On Fri, Apr 04, 2025 at 12:01:59PM +0200, Pankaj Raghav (Samsung) wrote:
> -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
> -is necessary to read ``/proc/PID/smaps`` and count the FilePmdMapped fields
> -for each mapping.
> +The number of PMD-sized transparent huge pages currently used by
"In similar fashion, the number ..."
> +tmpfs/shmem is available by reading the ShmemHugePages field
> +in ``/proc/meminfo``. The number of these huge pages that are mapped to userspace
> +is available by reading ShmemPmdMapped field in ``proc/meminfo``. To identify
> +what applications are mapping these huge pages, it is necessary to read
> +``/proc/PID/smaps`` and count the ShmemPmdMapped fields for each mapping.
>
Thanks.
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