linux-kernel - [PATCH] docs/vm: remove unused 3 items explanation for /proc/vmstat

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Date:   Mon, 16 Nov 2020 17:51:22 +0800
From:   Alex Shi <alex.shi@...ux.alibaba.com>
To:     corbet@....net
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Yang Shi <yang.shi@...ux.alibaba.com>,
        "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
        David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>, Zi Yan <ziy@...dia.com>,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] docs/vm: remove unused 3 items explanation for /proc/vmstat

Commit 5647bc293ab1 ("mm: compaction: Move migration fail/success
stats to migrate.c"), removed 3 items in /proc/vmstat. but the docs
still has their explanation. let's remove them.

"compact_blocks_moved",
"compact_pages_moved",
"compact_pagemigrate_failed",

Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@...ux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net> 
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> 
Cc: Yang Shi <yang.shi@...ux.alibaba.com> 
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com> 
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com> 
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@...dia.com> 
Cc: linux-doc@...r.kernel.org 
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org 
---
 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst | 15 ---------------
 1 file changed, 15 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
index b2acd0d395ca..3b8a336511a4 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
@@ -401,21 +401,6 @@ compact_fail
 	is incremented if the system tries to compact memory
 	but failed.
 
-compact_pages_moved
-	is incremented each time a page is moved. If
-	this value is increasing rapidly, it implies that the system
-	is copying a lot of data to satisfy the huge page allocation.
-	It is possible that the cost of copying exceeds any savings
-	from reduced TLB misses.
-
-compact_pagemigrate_failed
-	is incremented when the underlying mechanism
-	for moving a page failed.
-
-compact_blocks_moved
-	is incremented each time memory compaction examines
-	a huge page aligned range of pages.
-
 It is possible to establish how long the stalls were using the function
 tracer to record how long was spent in __alloc_pages_nodemask and
 using the mm_page_alloc tracepoint to identify which allocations were
-- 
2.29.GIT