The patch titled
Subject: ksm: add zero_pages_sharing documentation
has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch. Its filename is
ksm-add-zero_pages_sharing-documentation.patch
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From: xu xin <xu.xin16@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: ksm: add zero_pages_sharing documentation
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2022 09:17:28 +0800 (CST)
When enabling use_zero_pages, pages_sharing cannot represent how much
memory saved indeed. zero_pages_sharing + pages_sharing does. add the
description of zero_pages_sharing.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/202212300917284911971@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: xu xin <xu.xin16@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Xiaokai Ran <ran.xiaokai@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Yang Yang <yang.yang29@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jiang Xuexin <jiang.xuexin@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst~ksm-add-zero_pages_sharing-documentation
+++ a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst
@@ -173,6 +173,13 @@ stable_node_chains
the number of KSM pages that hit the ``max_page_sharing`` limit
stable_node_dups
number of duplicated KSM pages
+zero_pages_sharing
+ how many empty pages are sharing kernel zero page(s) instead of
+ with each other as it would happen normally. Only effective when
+ enabling ``use_zero_pages`` knob.
+
+When enabling ``use_zero_pages``, the sum of ``pages_sharing`` +
+``zero_pages_sharing`` represents how much really saved by KSM.
A high ratio of ``pages_sharing`` to ``pages_shared`` indicates good
sharing, but a high ratio of ``pages_unshared`` to ``pages_sharing``
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from xu.xin16@xxxxxxxxxx are
ksm-abstract-the-function-try_to_get_old_rmap_item.patch
ksm-support-unsharing-zero-pages-placed-by-ksm.patch
ksm-count-all-zero-pages-placed-by-ksm.patch
ksm-count-zero-pages-for-each-process.patch
ksm-add-zero_pages_sharing-documentation.patch
selftest-add-testing-unsharing-and-counting-ksm-zero-page.patch
