The patch titled
Subject: docs/vm: remove unused 3 items explanation for /proc/vmstat
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
docs-vm-remove-unused-3-items-explanation-for-proc-vmstat.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree
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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>
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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-thp-move-lru_add_page_tail-func-to-huge_memoryc.patch
mm-thp-use-head-for-head-page-in-lru_add_page_tail.patch
mm-thp-simplify-lru_add_page_tail.patch
mm-thp-narrow-lru-locking.patch
mm-vmscan-remove-unnecessary-lruvec-adding.patch
mm-rmap-stop-store-reordering-issue-on-page-mapping.patch
mm-memcg-add-debug-checking-in-lock_page_memcg.patch
mm-swapc-fold-vm-event-pgrotated-into-pagevec_move_tail_fn.patch
mm-lru-move-lock-into-lru_note_cost.patch
mm-vmscan-remove-lruvec-reget-in-move_pages_to_lru.patch
mm-mlock-remove-lru_lock-on-testclearpagemlocked.patch
mm-mlock-remove-__munlock_isolate_lru_page.patch
mm-lru-introduce-testclearpagelru.patch
mm-compaction-do-page-isolation-first-in-compaction.patch
mm-swapc-serialize-memcg-changes-in-pagevec_lru_move_fn.patch
mm-lru-replace-pgdat-lru_lock-with-lruvec-lock.patch
mm-vmscan-__isolate_lru_page_prepare-clean-up.patch
fs-nilfs2-remove-some-unused-macros-to-tame-gcc.patch
gcov-fix-kernel-doc-markup-issue.patch
mm-memcg-bail-early-from-swap-accounting-if-memcg-disabled.patch
mm-memcg-warning-on-memcg-after-readahead-page-charged.patch
mm-memcontrol-rewrite-mem_cgroup_page_lruvec-fix.patch
