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mm, thp: track fallbacks due to failed memcg charges separately
authorDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Tue, 7 Apr 2020 03:04:28 +0000 (20:04 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 7 Apr 2020 17:43:38 +0000 (10:43 -0700)
commit85b9f46e8ea451633ccd60a7d8cacbfff9f34047
tree500fe197ef3e38b19e5ff12311b091de9d8542df
parentdcdf11ee144133328664d90836e712d840d047d9
mm, thp: track fallbacks due to failed memcg charges separately

The thp_fault_fallback and thp_file_fallback vmstats are incremented if
either the hugepage allocation fails through the page allocator or the
hugepage charge fails through mem cgroup.

This patch leaves this field untouched but adds two new fields,
thp_{fault,file}_fallback_charge, which is incremented only when the mem
cgroup charge fails.

This distinguishes between attempted hugepage allocations that fail due to
fragmentation (or low memory conditions) and those that fail due to mem
cgroup limits.  That can be used to determine the impact of fragmentation
on the system by excluding faults that failed due to memcg usage.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Jeremy Cline <jcline@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.21.2003061422070.7412@chino.kir.corp.google.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
include/linux/vm_event_item.h
mm/huge_memory.c
mm/shmem.c
mm/vmstat.c