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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst index 56a086900651..aca0cff852b8 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst @@ -471,6 +471,12 @@ thp_deferred_split_page splitting it would free up some memory. Pages on split queue are going to be split under memory pressure. +thp_underused_split_page + is incremented when a huge page on the split queue was split + because it was underused. A THP is underused if the number of + zero pages in the THP is above a certain threshold + (/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/max_ptes_none). + thp_split_pmd is incremented every time a PMD split into table of PTEs. This can happen, for instance, when application calls mprotect() or |