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authorDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>2020-04-06 20:04:28 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-04-07 10:43:38 -0700
commit85b9f46e8ea451633ccd60a7d8cacbfff9f34047 (patch)
tree500fe197ef3e38b19e5ff12311b091de9d8542df /mm/vmstat.c
parentdcdf11ee144133328664d90836e712d840d047d9 (diff)
downloadlinux-85b9f46e8ea451633ccd60a7d8cacbfff9f34047.tar.gz
mm, thp: track fallbacks due to failed memcg charges separately
The thp_fault_fallback and thp_file_fallback vmstats are incremented if
either the hugepage allocation fails through the page allocator or the
hugepage charge fails through mem cgroup.

This patch leaves this field untouched but adds two new fields,
thp_{fault,file}_fallback_charge, which is incremented only when the mem
cgroup charge fails.

This distinguishes between attempted hugepage allocations that fail due to
fragmentation (or low memory conditions) and those that fail due to mem
cgroup limits.  That can be used to determine the impact of fragmentation
on the system by excluding faults that failed due to memcg usage.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Jeremy Cline <jcline@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.21.2003061422070.7412@chino.kir.corp.google.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/vmstat.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/vmstat.c2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/vmstat.c b/mm/vmstat.c
index ebc1dcaa0539..96d21a792b57 100644
--- a/mm/vmstat.c
+++ b/mm/vmstat.c
@@ -1256,10 +1256,12 @@ const char * const vmstat_text[] = {
 #ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
 	"thp_fault_alloc",
 	"thp_fault_fallback",
+	"thp_fault_fallback_charge",
 	"thp_collapse_alloc",
 	"thp_collapse_alloc_failed",
 	"thp_file_alloc",
 	"thp_file_fallback",
+	"thp_file_fallback_charge",
 	"thp_file_mapped",
 	"thp_split_page",
 	"thp_split_page_failed",