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mm/vmstat: add events for ksm cow
authorYang Yang <yang.yang29@zte.com.cn>
Fri, 29 Apr 2022 06:16:16 +0000 (23:16 -0700)
committerakpm <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 29 Apr 2022 06:16:16 +0000 (23:16 -0700)
commit94bfe85bde18a99612bb5d0ce348643c2d352836
tree1090ea49642e829f743f4d020fb9ccb66065c36b
parent7609385337a4feb6236e42dcd0df2185683ce839
mm/vmstat: add events for ksm cow

Users may use ksm by calling madvise(, , MADV_MERGEABLE) when they want to
save memory, it's a tradeoff by suffering delay on ksm cow.  Users can get
to know how much memory ksm saved by reading
/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/pages_sharing, but they don't know what's the costs of
ksm cow, and this is important of some delay sensitive tasks.

So add ksm cow events to help users evaluate whether or how to use ksm.
Also update Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst with new added events.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220331035616.2390805-1-yang.yang29@zte.com.cn
Signed-off-by: Yang Yang <yang.yang29@zte.com.cn>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: xu xin <xu.xin16@zte.com.cn>
Reviewed-by: Ran Xiaokai <ran.xiaokai@zte.com.cn>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Saravanan D <saravanand@fb.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst
include/linux/vm_event_item.h
mm/memory.c
mm/vmstat.c