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smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=aWkY6b7I; arc=none smtp.client-ip=100.103.45.18 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="aWkY6b7I" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B43931F00898; Sun, 31 May 2026 20:09:20 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=kernel.org; s=k20260515; t=1780258173; bh=vUR4pQEmi7q3t9WVDIk8a0y4HrNMNklWqbetWEzKFK8=; h=Date:Subject:To:Cc:References:From:In-Reply-To; b=aWkY6b7Ia6U93/bUAEYspC8USRSgKFuQ9u425mYy6lwrDsRLwBfBAUht0SxyyfgH5 18xJB8jm9Vo8GDxeKNoUvJ9uNOkHP5cS/MgOs5HZpJ0OFG9KW7aycFSRWS5bRhVOVp MBdxxYUnDo+z6USu2vJNkXQALN24K+Iylr8b+heT3Tb4VuyBUdtAgwDTqyEuCiWeoB z77HVvdXui+ZCvBc+Bs0IwnTI+mK+TB/TRmzW9jbOrJ73MaMPxsfMNVJv7xsmIGcuU GpnTkkIv7SrHMqnpg1vf0sDOPR9hnZ3Qo5cBX1eAhyAONYUrx088jV1iJGNuK7LQ8V 99GUW3cP87Sfw== Message-ID: Date: Sun, 31 May 2026 22:09:20 +0200 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: [PATCH mm-unstable v18 08/14] mm/khugepaged: add per-order mTHP collapse failure statistics To: Nico Pache , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: aarcange@redhat.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, anshuman.khandual@arm.com, apopple@nvidia.com, baohua@kernel.org, baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com, byungchul@sk.com, catalin.marinas@arm.com, cl@gentwo.org, corbet@lwn.net, dave.hansen@linux.intel.com, dev.jain@arm.com, gourry@gourry.net, hannes@cmpxchg.org, hughd@google.com, jack@suse.cz, jackmanb@google.com, jannh@google.com, jglisse@google.com, joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com, kas@kernel.org, lance.yang@linux.dev, liam@infradead.org, ljs@kernel.org, mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com, matthew.brost@intel.com, mhiramat@kernel.org, mhocko@suse.com, peterx@redhat.com, pfalcato@suse.de, rakie.kim@sk.com, raquini@redhat.com, rdunlap@infradead.org, richard.weiyang@gmail.com, rientjes@google.com, rostedt@goodmis.org, rppt@kernel.org, ryan.roberts@arm.com, shivankg@amd.com, sunnanyong@huawei.com, surenb@google.com, thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com, tiwai@suse.de, usamaarif642@gmail.com, vbabka@suse.cz, vishal.moola@gmail.com, wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com, will@kernel.org, willy@infradead.org, yang@os.amperecomputing.com, ying.huang@linux.alibaba.com, ziy@nvidia.com, zokeefe@google.com References: <20260522150009.121603-1-npache@redhat.com> <20260522150009.121603-9-npache@redhat.com> From: "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" Content-Language: en-US Autocrypt: addr=david@kernel.org; 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charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 5/22/26 17:00, Nico Pache wrote: > Add three new mTHP statistics to track collapse failures for different > orders when encountering swap PTEs, excessive none PTEs, and shared PTEs: > > - collapse_exceed_swap_pte: Increment when mTHP collapse fails due to > encountering a swap PTE. > > - collapse_exceed_none_pte: Counts when mTHP collapse fails due to > exceeding the none PTE threshold for the given order > > - collapse_exceed_shared_pte: Counts when mTHP collapse fails due to > encountering a shared PTE. > > These statistics complement the existing THP_SCAN_EXCEED_* events by > providing per-order granularity for mTHP collapse attempts. The stats are > exposed via sysfs under > `/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/hugepages-*/stats/` for each > supported hugepage size. > > As we currently do not support collapsing mTHPs that contain a swap or > shared entry, those statistics keep track of how often we are > encountering failed mTHP collapses due to these restrictions. > > We will add support for mTHP collapse for anonymous pages next; lets also > track when this happens at the PMD level within the per-mTHP stats. > > Signed-off-by: Nico Pache > --- > Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst | 14 ++++++++++++++ > include/linux/huge_mm.h | 3 +++ > mm/huge_memory.c | 7 +++++++ > mm/khugepaged.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++++-- > 4 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst > index c51932e6275d..80a4d0bed70b 100644 > --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst > +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst > @@ -714,6 +714,20 @@ nr_anon_partially_mapped > an anonymous THP as "partially mapped" and count it here, even though it > is not actually partially mapped anymore. > > +collapse_exceed_none_pte > + The number of collapse attempts that failed due to exceeding the > + max_ptes_none threshold. > + > +collapse_exceed_swap_pte > + The number of collapse attempts that failed due to exceeding the > + max_ptes_swap threshold. For non-PMD orders this occurs if a mTHP range > + contains at least one swap PTE. > + > +collapse_exceed_shared_pte > + The number of collapse attempts that failed due to exceeding the > + max_ptes_shared threshold. For non-PMD orders this occurs if a mTHP range > + contains at least one shared PTE. > + > 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 > diff --git a/include/linux/huge_mm.h b/include/linux/huge_mm.h > index ba7ae6808544..48496f09909b 100644 > --- a/include/linux/huge_mm.h > +++ b/include/linux/huge_mm.h > @@ -144,6 +144,9 @@ enum mthp_stat_item { > MTHP_STAT_SPLIT_DEFERRED, > MTHP_STAT_NR_ANON, > MTHP_STAT_NR_ANON_PARTIALLY_MAPPED, > + MTHP_STAT_COLLAPSE_EXCEED_SWAP, > + MTHP_STAT_COLLAPSE_EXCEED_NONE, > + MTHP_STAT_COLLAPSE_EXCEED_SHARED, > __MTHP_STAT_COUNT > }; > > diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c > index 345c54133c83..5c128cdec810 100644 > --- a/mm/huge_memory.c > +++ b/mm/huge_memory.c > @@ -703,6 +703,10 @@ DEFINE_MTHP_STAT_ATTR(split_failed, MTHP_STAT_SPLIT_FAILED); > DEFINE_MTHP_STAT_ATTR(split_deferred, MTHP_STAT_SPLIT_DEFERRED); > DEFINE_MTHP_STAT_ATTR(nr_anon, MTHP_STAT_NR_ANON); > DEFINE_MTHP_STAT_ATTR(nr_anon_partially_mapped, MTHP_STAT_NR_ANON_PARTIALLY_MAPPED); > +DEFINE_MTHP_STAT_ATTR(collapse_exceed_swap_pte, MTHP_STAT_COLLAPSE_EXCEED_SWAP); > +DEFINE_MTHP_STAT_ATTR(collapse_exceed_none_pte, MTHP_STAT_COLLAPSE_EXCEED_NONE); > +DEFINE_MTHP_STAT_ATTR(collapse_exceed_shared_pte, MTHP_STAT_COLLAPSE_EXCEED_SHARED) [...] > /* See collapse_scan_pmd(). */ > if (folio_maybe_mapped_shared(folio)) { > + /* > + * TODO: Support shared pages without leading to further > + * mTHP collapses. Currently bringing in new pages via > + * shared may cause a future higher order collapse on a > + * rescan of the same range. > + */ This comment actually belongs into an earlier patch, no? > if (++shared > max_ptes_shared) { > result = SCAN_EXCEED_SHARED_PTE; > - count_vm_event(THP_SCAN_EXCEED_SHARED_PTE); > + if (is_pmd_order(order)) > + count_vm_event(THP_SCAN_EXCEED_SHARED_PTE); > + count_mthp_stat(order, MTHP_STAT_COLLAPSE_EXCEED_SHARED); > goto out; > } > } > @@ -1138,6 +1148,7 @@ static enum scan_result __collapse_huge_page_swapin(struct mm_struct *mm, > * range. > */ > if (!is_pmd_order(order)) { > + count_mthp_stat(order, MTHP_STAT_COLLAPSE_EXCEED_SWAP); > pte_unmap(pte); > mmap_read_unlock(mm); > result = SCAN_EXCEED_SWAP_PTE; > @@ -1433,6 +1444,8 @@ static enum scan_result collapse_scan_pmd(struct mm_struct *mm, > if (++none_or_zero > max_ptes_none) { > result = SCAN_EXCEED_NONE_PTE; > count_vm_event(THP_SCAN_EXCEED_NONE_PTE); > + count_mthp_stat(HPAGE_PMD_ORDER, > + MTHP_STAT_COLLAPSE_EXCEED_NONE); > goto out_unmap; > } > continue; > @@ -1441,6 +1454,8 @@ static enum scan_result collapse_scan_pmd(struct mm_struct *mm, > if (++unmapped > max_ptes_swap) { > result = SCAN_EXCEED_SWAP_PTE; > count_vm_event(THP_SCAN_EXCEED_SWAP_PTE); > + count_mthp_stat(HPAGE_PMD_ORDER, > + MTHP_STAT_COLLAPSE_EXCEED_SWAP); > goto out_unmap; > } > /* > @@ -1498,6 +1513,8 @@ static enum scan_result collapse_scan_pmd(struct mm_struct *mm, > if (++shared > max_ptes_shared) { > result = SCAN_EXCEED_SHARED_PTE; > count_vm_event(THP_SCAN_EXCEED_SHARED_PTE); > + count_mthp_stat(HPAGE_PMD_ORDER, > + MTHP_STAT_COLLAPSE_EXCEED_SHARED); Can be done as a later cleanup, but having a single function that obtains an order and knows which stats to update would be cleaner (and a good preparation for shmem mTHP collapse support). Nothing jumped at me, so Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) -- Cheers, David