Hi Andrew, Could you please fold the following changes into this patch? diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst index 747c811ee8f1..fe237825b95c 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst @@ -513,17 +513,16 @@ split is incremented every time a huge page is successfully split into smaller orders. 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 any block mappings into PTEs. split_failed is incremented if kernel fails to split huge page. This can happen if the page was pinned by somebody. split_deferred - 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. + 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, if splitting is possible. As the system ages, allocating huge pages may be expensive as the system uses memory compaction to copy data around memory to free a -- Thanks, Lance
