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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt b/Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt index 21cf34f3ddb2..0dc8632aa01e 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt +++ b/Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt @@ -229,6 +229,11 @@ thp_split_page is incremented every time a huge page is split into base thp_split_page_failed is is incremented if kernel fails to split huge page. This can happen if the page was pinned by somebody. +thp_deferred_split_page is incremented when a huge page is put onto split + queue. This happens when a huge page is partially unmapped and + splitting it would free up some memory. Pages on split queue are + going to be split under memory pressure. + thp_split_pmd is incremented every time a PMD split into table of PTEs. This can happen, for instance, when application calls mprotect() or munmap() on part of huge page. It doesn't split huge page, only |