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Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2024 21:51:48 +0800
From: Lance Yang <ioworker0@...il.com>
To: akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc: 21cnbao@...il.com,
	ryan.roberts@....com,
	david@...hat.com,
	baolin.wang@...ux.alibaba.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org,
	Lance Yang <ioworker0@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] mm: add docs for per-order mTHP split counters

This commit introduces documentation for mTHP split counters in
transhuge.rst.

Signed-off-by: Lance Yang <ioworker0@...il.com>
---
 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
index f82300b9193f..35d574a531c8 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
@@ -475,6 +475,22 @@ anon_swpout_fallback
 	Usually because failed to allocate some continuous swap space
 	for the huge page.
 
+split_page
+	is incremented every time a huge page is split into base
+	pages. This can happen for a variety of reasons but a common
+	reason is that a huge page is old and is being reclaimed.
+	This action implies splitting all PMD/PTE mapped with the huge page.
+
+split_page_failed
+	is incremented if kernel fails to split huge
+	page. This can happen if the page was pinned by somebody.
+
+deferred_split_page
+	is incremented when a huge page is put onto split
+	queue. This happens when a huge page is partially unmapped and
+	splitting it would free up some memory. Pages on split queue are
+	going to be split under memory pressure.
+
 As the system ages, allocating huge pages may be expensive as the
 system uses memory compaction to copy data around memory to free a
 huge page for use. There are some counters in ``/proc/vmstat`` to help
-- 
2.33.1


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