On Wed, 7 Nov 2012, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote: > From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > hzp_alloc is incremented every time a huge zero page is successfully > allocated. It includes allocations which where dropped due > race with other allocation. Note, it doesn't count every map > of the huge zero page, only its allocation. > > hzp_alloc_failed is incremented if kernel fails to allocate huge zero > page and falls back to using small pages. > Nobody is going to know what hzp_ is, sorry. It's better to be more verbose and name them what they actually are: THP_ZERO_PAGE_ALLOC and THP_ZERO_PAGE_ALLOC_FAILED. But this would assume we want to lazily allocate them, which I disagree with hpa about. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>