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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst index 1f72b00af5d3..a1bc9b24e29a 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst @@ -369,10 +369,6 @@ also applies to the regions registered in khugepaged. Monitoring usage ================ -.. note:: - Currently the below counters only record events relating to - PMD-sized THP. Events relating to other THP sizes are not included. - The number of PMD-sized anonymous transparent huge pages currently used by the system is available by reading the AnonHugePages field in ``/proc/meminfo``. To identify what applications are using PMD-sized anonymous transparent huge @@ -514,6 +510,21 @@ file_fallback_charge falls back to using small pages even though the allocation was successful. +split + is incremented every time a huge page is successfully split into + smaller orders. This can happen for a variety of reasons but a + common reason is that a huge page is old and is being reclaimed. + +split_failed + is incremented if kernel fails to split huge + page. This can happen if the page was pinned by somebody. + +split_deferred + 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, if splitting is possible. + 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 |