From nobody Fri Feb 13 12:28:16 2026 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C732CCE7A8E for ; Tue, 26 Sep 2023 04:10:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S233568AbjIZEKP (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Sep 2023 00:10:15 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:47588 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S233231AbjIZEKF (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Sep 2023 00:10:05 -0400 Received: from 66-220-144-178.mail-mxout.facebook.com (66-220-144-178.mail-mxout.facebook.com [66.220.144.178]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 385B7F2 for ; Mon, 25 Sep 2023 21:09:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: by devbig1114.prn1.facebook.com (Postfix, from userid 425415) id 82FD9C8F2446; Mon, 25 Sep 2023 21:09:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Stefan Roesch To: kernel-team@fb.com Cc: shr@devkernel.io, akpm@linux-foundation.org, david@redhat.com, hannes@cmpxchg.org, riel@surriel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org Subject: [PATCH v3 2/4] mm/ksm: add pages_skipped metric Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2023 21:09:37 -0700 Message-Id: <20230926040939.516161-3-shr@devkernel.io> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.39.3 In-Reply-To: <20230926040939.516161-1-shr@devkernel.io> References: <20230926040939.516161-1-shr@devkernel.io> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" This change adds the "pages skipped" metric. To be able to evaluate how successful smart page scanning is, the pages skipped metric can be compared to the pages scanned metric. The pages skipped metric is a cumulative counter. The counter is stored under /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/pages_skipped. Signed-off-by: Stefan Roesch Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand --- mm/ksm.c | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) diff --git a/mm/ksm.c b/mm/ksm.c index d65eb48f9a13..3de130d170b7 100644 --- a/mm/ksm.c +++ b/mm/ksm.c @@ -293,6 +293,9 @@ static bool ksm_smart_scan; /* The number of zero pages which is placed by KSM */ unsigned long ksm_zero_pages; =20 +/* The number of pages that have been skipped due to "smart scanning" */ +static unsigned long ksm_pages_skipped; + #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA /* Zeroed when merging across nodes is not allowed */ static unsigned int ksm_merge_across_nodes =3D 1; @@ -2376,6 +2379,7 @@ static bool should_skip_rmap_item(struct page *page, } =20 /* Skip this page */ + ksm_pages_skipped++; rmap_item->remaining_skips--; remove_rmap_item_from_tree(rmap_item); return true; @@ -3463,6 +3467,13 @@ static ssize_t pages_volatile_show(struct kobject *k= obj, } KSM_ATTR_RO(pages_volatile); =20 +static ssize_t pages_skipped_show(struct kobject *kobj, + struct kobj_attribute *attr, char *buf) +{ + return sysfs_emit(buf, "%lu\n", ksm_pages_skipped); +} +KSM_ATTR_RO(pages_skipped); + static ssize_t ksm_zero_pages_show(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobj_attribute *attr, char *buf) { @@ -3560,6 +3571,7 @@ static struct attribute *ksm_attrs[] =3D { &pages_sharing_attr.attr, &pages_unshared_attr.attr, &pages_volatile_attr.attr, + &pages_skipped_attr.attr, &ksm_zero_pages_attr.attr, &full_scans_attr.attr, #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA --=20 2.39.3