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Re: [PATCH v13 mm-new 10/16] khugepaged: add per-order mTHP collapse failure statistics

From: Randy Dunlap <hidden>
Date: 2025-12-01 18:39:01
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On 12/1/25 9:46 AM, Nico Pache wrote:
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Add three new mTHP statistics to track collapse failures for different
orders when encountering swap PTEs, excessive none PTEs, and shared PTEs:

- collapse_exceed_swap_pte: Increment when mTHP collapse fails due to swap
	PTEs

- collapse_exceed_none_pte: Counts when mTHP collapse fails due to
  	exceeding the none PTE threshold for the given order

- collapse_exceed_shared_pte: Counts when mTHP collapse fails due to shared
  	PTEs

These statistics complement the existing THP_SCAN_EXCEED_* events by
providing per-order granularity for mTHP collapse attempts. The stats are
exposed via sysfs under
`/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/hugepages-*/stats/` for each
supported hugepage size.

As we currently dont support collapsing mTHPs that contain a swap or
shared entry, those statistics keep track of how often we are
encountering failed mTHP collapses due to these restrictions.

Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com>
---
 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 include/linux/huge_mm.h                    |  3 +++
 mm/huge_memory.c                           |  7 +++++++
 mm/khugepaged.c                            | 16 ++++++++++++---
 4 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
index c51932e6275d..d396d1bfb274 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
@@ -714,6 +714,30 @@ nr_anon_partially_mapped
        an anonymous THP as "partially mapped" and count it here, even though it
        is not actually partially mapped anymore.
 
+collapse_exceed_none_pte
+       The number of collapse attempts that failed due to exceeding the
+       max_ptes_none threshold. For mTHP collapse, Currently only max_ptes_none
	                                              currently
+       values of 0 and (HPAGE_PMD_NR - 1) are supported. Any other value will
+       emit a warning and no mTHP collapse will be attempted. khugepaged will
+       try to collapse to the largest enabled (m)THP size, if it fails, it will
	                                                size. If
or
	                                                size; if
+       try the next lower enabled mTHP size. This counter records the number of
+       times a collapse attempt was skipped for exceeding the max_ptes_none
+       threshold, and khugepaged will move on to the next available mTHP size.
+
+collapse_exceed_swap_pte
+       The number of anonymous mTHP pte ranges which were unable to collapse due
	                               PTE
+       to containing at least one swap PTE. Currently khugepaged does not
+       support collapsing mTHP regions that contain a swap PTE. This counter can
+       be used to monitor the number of khugepaged mTHP collapses that failed
+       due to the presence of a swap PTE.
+
+collapse_exceed_shared_pte
+       The number of anonymous mTHP pte ranges which were unable to collapse due
	                               PTE
+       to containing at least one shared PTE. Currently khugepaged does not
+       support collapsing mTHP pte ranges that contain a shared PTE. This
	                          PTE
+       counter can be used to monitor the number of khugepaged mTHP collapses
+       that failed due to the presence of a shared PTE.
+
 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

-- 
~Randy
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