linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/11] ksm: add sysfs ABI Documentation

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Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1301251754580.29196@eggly.anvils>
Date:	Fri, 25 Jan 2013 17:56:57 -0800 (PST)
From:	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
cc:	Petr Holasek <pholasek@...hat.com>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
	Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@...ellosystems.com>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/11] ksm: add sysfs ABI Documentation

From: Petr Holasek <pholasek@...hat.com>

This patch adds sysfs documentation for Kernel Samepage Merging (KSM)
including new merge_across_nodes knob.

Signed-off-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
---
 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-ksm |   52 ++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 52 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-ksm

--- /dev/null	1970-01-01 00:00:00.000000000 +0000
+++ mmotm/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-ksm	2013-01-25 14:36:50.660205905 -0800
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+What:		/sys/kernel/mm/ksm
+Date:		September 2009
+KernelVersion:	2.6.32
+Contact:	Linux memory management mailing list <linux-mm@...ck.org>
+Description:	Interface for Kernel Samepage Merging (KSM)
+
+What:		/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/full_scans
+What:		/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/pages_shared
+What:		/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/pages_sharing
+What:		/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/pages_to_scan
+What:		/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/pages_unshared
+What:		/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/pages_volatile
+What:		/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run
+What:		/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/sleep_millisecs
+Date:		September 2009
+Contact:	Linux memory management mailing list <linux-mm@...ck.org>
+Description:	Kernel Samepage Merging daemon sysfs interface
+
+		full_scans: how many times all mergeable areas have been
+		scanned.
+
+		pages_shared: how many shared pages are being used.
+
+		pages_sharing: how many more sites are sharing them i.e. how
+		much saved.
+
+		pages_to_scan: how many present pages to scan before ksmd goes
+		to sleep.
+
+		pages_unshared: how many pages unique but repeatedly checked
+		for merging.
+
+		pages_volatile: how many pages changing too fast to be placed
+		in a tree.
+
+		run: write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled.
+			write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running.
+			write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
+
+		sleep_millisecs: how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between
+		scans.
+
+		See Documentation/vm/ksm.txt for more information.
+
+What:		/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/merge_across_nodes
+Date:		January 2013
+KernelVersion:	3.9
+Contact:	Linux memory management mailing list <linux-mm@...ck.org>
+Description:	Control merging pages across different NUMA nodes.
+
+		When it is set to 0 only pages from the same node are merged,
+		otherwise pages from all nodes can be merged together (default).
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