mm: count the number of anonymous THPs per size

Patch series "mm: count the number of anonymous THPs per size", v4.

Knowing the number of transparent anon THPs in the system is crucial
for performance analysis. It helps in understanding the ratio and
distribution of THPs versus small folios throughout the system.

Additionally, partial unmapping by userspace can lead to significant waste
of THPs over time and increase memory reclamation pressure. We need this
information for comprehensive system tuning.


This patch (of 2):

Let's track for each anonymous THP size, how many of them are currently
allocated.  We'll track the complete lifespan of an anon THP, starting
when it becomes an anon THP ("large anon folio") (->mapping gets set),
until it gets freed (->mapping gets cleared).

Introduce a new "nr_anon" counter per THP size and adjust the
corresponding counter in the following cases:
* We allocate a new THP and call folio_add_new_anon_rmap() to map
   it the first time and turn it into an anon THP.
* We split an anon THP into multiple smaller ones.
* We migrate an anon THP, when we prepare the destination.
* We free an anon THP back to the buddy.

Note that AnonPages in /proc/meminfo currently tracks the total number of
*mapped* anonymous *pages*, and therefore has slightly different
semantics.  In the future, we might also want to track "nr_anon_mapped"
for each THP size, which might be helpful when comparing it to the number
of allocated anon THPs (long-term pinning, stuck in swapcache, memory
leaks, ...).

Further note that for now, we only track anon THPs after they got their
->mapping set, for example via folio_add_new_anon_rmap().  If we would
allocate some in the swapcache, they will only show up in the statistics
for now after they have been mapped to user space the first time, where we
call folio_add_new_anon_rmap().

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: documentation fixups, per David]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/3e8add35-e26b-443b-8a04-1078f4bc78f6@redhat.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240824010441.21308-1-21cnbao@gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240824010441.21308-2-21cnbao@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@oppo.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>
Cc: Chuanhua Han <hanchuanhua@oppo.com>
Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
Cc: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com>
Cc: Lance Yang <ioworker0@gmail.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Shuai Yuan <yuanshuai@oppo.com>
Cc: Usama Arif <usamaarif642@gmail.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
index 79435c537e21..d6874234a09a 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
@@ -551,6 +551,11 @@ split_deferred
         it would free up some memory. Pages on split queue are going to
         be split under memory pressure, if splitting is possible.
 
+nr_anon
+       the number of anonymous THP we have in the whole system. These THPs
+       might be currently entirely mapped or have partially unmapped/unused
+       subpages.
+
 As the system ages, allocating huge pages may be expensive as the
 system uses memory compaction to copy data around memory to free a
 huge page for use. There are some counters in ``/proc/vmstat`` to help