From: "Pankaj Raghav (Samsung)" <kernel@pankajraghav.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
willy@infradead.org, David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>,
Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>,
da.gomez@kernel.org, mcgrof@kernel.org, gost.dev@samsung.com,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, kernel@pankajraghav.com,
Pankaj Raghav <p.raghav@samsung.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 1/2] docs: update THP admin guide about non-tmpfs filesystem support
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2025 12:01:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250404100159.27086-2-kernel@pankajraghav.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250404100159.27086-1-kernel@pankajraghav.com>
From: Pankaj Raghav <p.raghav@samsung.com>
THP support for non-tmpfs filesystem has been around for some time now.
Update the admin guide to reflect it.
Signed-off-by: Pankaj Raghav <p.raghav@samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
---
Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst | 8 ++++++--
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
index dff8d5985f0f..01b7ce90d693 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
@@ -12,8 +12,8 @@ using huge pages for the backing of virtual memory with huge pages
that supports the automatic promotion and demotion of page sizes and
without the shortcomings of hugetlbfs.
-Currently THP only works for anonymous memory mappings and tmpfs/shmem.
-But in the future it can expand to other filesystems.
+Currently, THP only works for anonymous memory mappings, tmpfs/shmem and
+filesystems that support large folios.
.. note::
in the examples below we presume that the basic page size is 4K and
@@ -463,6 +463,10 @@ fields for each mapping. (Note that AnonHugePages only applies to traditional
PMD-sized THP for historical reasons and should have been called
AnonHugePmdMapped).
+The number of PMD-sized transparent huge pages currently used by
+filesystem data (page cache) is available by reading the FileHugePages field
+in ``/proc/meminfo``.
+
The number of file transparent huge pages mapped to userspace is available
by reading ShmemPmdMapped and ShmemHugePages fields in ``/proc/meminfo``.
To identify what applications are mapping file transparent huge pages, it
--
2.47.2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-04-04 10:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-04-04 10:01 [PATCH v2 0/2] update thp admin doc Pankaj Raghav (Samsung)
2025-04-04 10:01 ` Pankaj Raghav (Samsung) [this message]
2025-04-04 10:01 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] docs: clarify THP admin guide about (File|Shmem)PmdMapped and ShmemHugePage Pankaj Raghav (Samsung)
2025-04-04 12:44 ` Bagas Sanjaya
2025-04-04 12:55 ` David Hildenbrand
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