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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst | 18 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/vm_event_item.h | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/memory.c | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/vmstat.c | 3 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst index 97d816791aca..b244f0202a03 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst @@ -184,6 +184,24 @@ The maximum possible ``pages_sharing/pages_shared`` ratio is limited by the ``max_page_sharing`` tunable. To increase the ratio ``max_page_sharing`` must be increased accordingly. +Monitoring KSM events +===================== + +There are some counters in /proc/vmstat that may be used to monitor KSM events. +KSM might help save memory, it's a tradeoff by may suffering delay on KSM COW +or on swapping in copy. Those events could help users evaluate whether or how +to use KSM. For example, if cow_ksm increases too fast, user may decrease the +range of madvise(, , MADV_MERGEABLE). + +cow_ksm + is incremented every time a KSM page triggers copy on write (COW) + when users try to write to a KSM page, we have to make a copy. + +ksm_swpin_copy + is incremented every time a KSM page is copied when swapping in + note that KSM page might be copied when swapping in because do_swap_page() + cannot do all the locking needed to reconstitute a cross-anon_vma KSM page. + -- Izik Eidus, Hugh Dickins, 17 Nov 2009 diff --git a/include/linux/vm_event_item.h b/include/linux/vm_event_item.h index 16a0a4fd000b..e83967e4c20e 100644 --- a/include/linux/vm_event_item.h +++ b/include/linux/vm_event_item.h @@ -133,6 +133,9 @@ enum vm_event_item { PGPGIN, PGPGOUT, PSWPIN, PSWPOUT, KSM_SWPIN_COPY, #endif #endif +#ifdef CONFIG_KSM + COW_KSM, +#endif #ifdef CONFIG_X86 DIRECT_MAP_LEVEL2_SPLIT, DIRECT_MAP_LEVEL3_SPLIT, diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c index 8895dd2f2255..e873a6143181 100644 --- a/mm/memory.c +++ b/mm/memory.c @@ -3331,6 +3331,10 @@ copy: get_page(vmf->page); pte_unmap_unlock(vmf->pte, vmf->ptl); +#ifdef CONFIG_KSM + if (PageKsm(vmf->page)) + count_vm_event(COW_KSM); +#endif return wp_page_copy(vmf); } diff --git a/mm/vmstat.c b/mm/vmstat.c index f2d0dec1062d..b94a2e4723ff 100644 --- a/mm/vmstat.c +++ b/mm/vmstat.c @@ -1393,6 +1393,9 @@ const char * const vmstat_text[] = { "ksm_swpin_copy", #endif #endif +#ifdef CONFIG_KSM + "cow_ksm", +#endif #ifdef CONFIG_X86 "direct_map_level2_splits", "direct_map_level3_splits", |