[PATCH v7 2/2] Documentation: add sysfs ABI documentation for ksm
From: Petr Holasek <hidden>
Date: 2012-12-28 01:32:40
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lkml
Subsystem:
memory management - ksm (kernel samepage merging), the rest · Maintainers:
Andrew Morton, David Hildenbrand, Linus Torvalds
This patch adds sysfs documentation for Kernel Samepage Merging (KSM) including new merge_across_nodes knob. Signed-off-by: Petr Holasek <redacted> --- Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-ksm | 51 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 51 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-ksm
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-ksm b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-ksm
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..44384ae
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-ksm@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@ +What: /sys/kernel/mm/ksm +Date: September 2009 +Contact: Linux memory management mailing list <linux-mm@kvack.org> +Description: /sys/kernel/mm/ksm contains interface of Kernel Samepage + Merging (KSM) + +What: /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/full_scans +What: /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/pages_shared +What: /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/pages_sharing +What: /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/pages_to_scan +What: /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/pages_unshared +What: /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/pages_volatile +What: /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run +What: /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/sleep_millisecs +Date: September 2009 +Contact: Linux memory management mailing list <linux-mm@kvack.org> +Description: Kernel Samepage Merging daemon sysfs interface + + full_scans: how many times all mergeable areas have been + scanned. + + pages_shared: how many shared pages are being used. + + pages_sharing: how many more sites are sharing them i.e. how + much saved. + + pages_to_scan: how many present pages to scan before ksmd goes + to sleep. + + pages_unshared: how many pages unique but repeatedly checked + for merging. + + pages_volatile: how many pages changing too fast to be placed + in a tree. + + run: write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled. + write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running. + write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. + + sleep_millisecs: how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between + scans. + + See Documentation/vm/ksm.txt for more information. + +What: /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/merge_across_nodes +Date: December 2012 +Contact: Linux memory management mailing list <linux-mm@kvack.org> +Description: Control merging pages across different NUMA nodes. + + When it is set to 0 only pages from the same node are merged, + otherwise pages from all nodes can be merged together (default).
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