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mm/vmstat: add events for THP max_ptes_* exceeds

There are interfaces to adjust max_ptes_none, max_ptes_swap,
max_ptes_shared values, see
/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/.

But system administrator may not know which value is the best. So Add
those events to support adjusting max_ptes_* to suitable values.

For example, if default max_ptes_swap value causes too much failures,
and system uses zram whose IO is fast, administrator could increase
max_ptes_swap until THP_SCAN_EXCEED_SWAP_PTE not increase anymore.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211225094036.574157-1-yang.yang29@zte.com.cn
Signed-off-by: Yang Yang <yang.yang29@zte.com.cn>
Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Saravanan D <saravanand@fb.com>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

authored by

Yang Yang and committed by
Linus Torvalds
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include/linux/vm_event_item.h
··· 98 98 THP_SPLIT_PAGE_FAILED, 99 99 THP_DEFERRED_SPLIT_PAGE, 100 100 THP_SPLIT_PMD, 101 + THP_SCAN_EXCEED_NONE_PTE, 102 + THP_SCAN_EXCEED_SWAP_PTE, 103 + THP_SCAN_EXCEED_SHARED_PTE, 101 104 #ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_PUD 102 105 THP_SPLIT_PUD, 103 106 #endif
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mm/khugepaged.c
··· 618 618 continue; 619 619 } else { 620 620 result = SCAN_EXCEED_NONE_PTE; 621 + count_vm_event(THP_SCAN_EXCEED_NONE_PTE); 621 622 goto out; 622 623 } 623 624 } ··· 637 636 if (page_mapcount(page) > 1 && 638 637 ++shared > khugepaged_max_ptes_shared) { 639 638 result = SCAN_EXCEED_SHARED_PTE; 639 + count_vm_event(THP_SCAN_EXCEED_SHARED_PTE); 640 640 goto out; 641 641 } 642 642 ··· 1255 1253 continue; 1256 1254 } else { 1257 1255 result = SCAN_EXCEED_SWAP_PTE; 1256 + count_vm_event(THP_SCAN_EXCEED_SWAP_PTE); 1258 1257 goto out_unmap; 1259 1258 } 1260 1259 } ··· 1265 1262 continue; 1266 1263 } else { 1267 1264 result = SCAN_EXCEED_NONE_PTE; 1265 + count_vm_event(THP_SCAN_EXCEED_NONE_PTE); 1268 1266 goto out_unmap; 1269 1267 } 1270 1268 } ··· 1294 1290 if (page_mapcount(page) > 1 && 1295 1291 ++shared > khugepaged_max_ptes_shared) { 1296 1292 result = SCAN_EXCEED_SHARED_PTE; 1293 + count_vm_event(THP_SCAN_EXCEED_SHARED_PTE); 1297 1294 goto out_unmap; 1298 1295 } 1299 1296 ··· 2005 2000 if (xa_is_value(page)) { 2006 2001 if (++swap > khugepaged_max_ptes_swap) { 2007 2002 result = SCAN_EXCEED_SWAP_PTE; 2003 + count_vm_event(THP_SCAN_EXCEED_SWAP_PTE); 2008 2004 break; 2009 2005 } 2010 2006 continue; ··· 2052 2046 if (result == SCAN_SUCCEED) { 2053 2047 if (present < HPAGE_PMD_NR - khugepaged_max_ptes_none) { 2054 2048 result = SCAN_EXCEED_NONE_PTE; 2049 + count_vm_event(THP_SCAN_EXCEED_NONE_PTE); 2055 2050 } else { 2056 2051 node = khugepaged_find_target_node(); 2057 2052 collapse_file(mm, file, start, hpage, node);
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mm/vmstat.c
··· 1353 1353 "thp_split_page_failed", 1354 1354 "thp_deferred_split_page", 1355 1355 "thp_split_pmd", 1356 + "thp_scan_exceed_none_pte", 1357 + "thp_scan_exceed_swap_pte", 1358 + "thp_scan_exceed_share_pte", 1356 1359 #ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_PUD 1357 1360 "thp_split_pud", 1358 1361 #endif