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Subject: docs/vm: remove unused 3 items explanation for /proc/vmstat
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docs-vm-remove-unused-3-items-explanation-for-proc-vmstat.patch
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From: Alex Shi <alex.shi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: 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",
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1605520282-51993-1-git-send-email-alex.shi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Yang Shi <yang.shi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst | 15 ---------------
1 file changed, 15 deletions(-)
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst~docs-vm-remove-unused-3-items-explanation-for-proc-vmstat
+++ a/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
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from alex.shi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
mm-filemap-add-static-for-function-__add_to_page_cache_locked.patch
fs-ntfs-remove-unused-varibles.patch
fs-ntfs-remove-unused-varible-attr_len.patch
mm-memcg-update-page-struct-member-in-comments.patch
docs-vm-remove-unused-3-items-explanation-for-proc-vmstat.patch
mm-memcg-bail-early-from-swap-accounting-if-memcg-disabled.patch
mm-memcg-warning-on-memcg-after-readahead-page-charged.patch
