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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)
commitd5b2856c5513d0e1ace00fc5e7f9d937bc5d1f6f
tree1090ea49642e829f743f4d020fb9ccb66065c36b
parenta60e7e1aa0b2c42b8339fe3ea67fafbfacee3031
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