From: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com>
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Subject: [PATCH mm-unstable v14 10/16] khugepaged: add per-order mTHP collapse failure statistics
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2026 12:28:35 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260122192841.128719-11-npache@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260122192841.128719-1-npache@redhat.com>
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..eebb1f6bbc6c 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
+ 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
+ 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
+ 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
+ to containing at least one shared PTE. Currently khugepaged does not
+ support collapsing mTHP PTE ranges that contain a shared PTE. This
+ 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
diff --git a/include/linux/huge_mm.h b/include/linux/huge_mm.h
index 9941fc6d7bd8..e8777bb2347d 100644
--- a/include/linux/huge_mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/huge_mm.h
@@ -144,6 +144,9 @@ enum mthp_stat_item {
MTHP_STAT_SPLIT_DEFERRED,
MTHP_STAT_NR_ANON,
MTHP_STAT_NR_ANON_PARTIALLY_MAPPED,
+ MTHP_STAT_COLLAPSE_EXCEED_SWAP,
+ MTHP_STAT_COLLAPSE_EXCEED_NONE,
+ MTHP_STAT_COLLAPSE_EXCEED_SHARED,
__MTHP_STAT_COUNT
};
diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index 00fc92062d70..7c0b072fc6b2 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -639,6 +639,10 @@ DEFINE_MTHP_STAT_ATTR(split_failed, MTHP_STAT_SPLIT_FAILED);
DEFINE_MTHP_STAT_ATTR(split_deferred, MTHP_STAT_SPLIT_DEFERRED);
DEFINE_MTHP_STAT_ATTR(nr_anon, MTHP_STAT_NR_ANON);
DEFINE_MTHP_STAT_ATTR(nr_anon_partially_mapped, MTHP_STAT_NR_ANON_PARTIALLY_MAPPED);
+DEFINE_MTHP_STAT_ATTR(collapse_exceed_swap_pte, MTHP_STAT_COLLAPSE_EXCEED_SWAP);
+DEFINE_MTHP_STAT_ATTR(collapse_exceed_none_pte, MTHP_STAT_COLLAPSE_EXCEED_NONE);
+DEFINE_MTHP_STAT_ATTR(collapse_exceed_shared_pte, MTHP_STAT_COLLAPSE_EXCEED_SHARED);
+
static struct attribute *anon_stats_attrs[] = {
&anon_fault_alloc_attr.attr,
@@ -655,6 +659,9 @@ static struct attribute *anon_stats_attrs[] = {
&split_deferred_attr.attr,
&nr_anon_attr.attr,
&nr_anon_partially_mapped_attr.attr,
+ &collapse_exceed_swap_pte_attr.attr,
+ &collapse_exceed_none_pte_attr.attr,
+ &collapse_exceed_shared_pte_attr.attr,
NULL,
};
diff --git a/mm/khugepaged.c b/mm/khugepaged.c
index 8bb70e1401ad..96f1c28646ba 100644
--- a/mm/khugepaged.c
+++ b/mm/khugepaged.c
@@ -602,7 +602,9 @@ static enum scan_result __collapse_huge_page_isolate(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
continue;
} else {
result = SCAN_EXCEED_NONE_PTE;
- count_vm_event(THP_SCAN_EXCEED_NONE_PTE);
+ if (is_pmd_order(order))
+ count_vm_event(THP_SCAN_EXCEED_NONE_PTE);
+ count_mthp_stat(order, MTHP_STAT_COLLAPSE_EXCEED_NONE);
goto out;
}
}
@@ -632,10 +634,17 @@ static enum scan_result __collapse_huge_page_isolate(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
* shared may cause a future higher order collapse on a
* rescan of the same range.
*/
- if (!is_pmd_order(order) || (cc->is_khugepaged &&
- shared > khugepaged_max_ptes_shared)) {
+ if (!is_pmd_order(order)) {
+ result = SCAN_EXCEED_SHARED_PTE;
+ count_mthp_stat(order, MTHP_STAT_COLLAPSE_EXCEED_SHARED);
+ goto out;
+ }
+
+ if (cc->is_khugepaged &&
+ shared > khugepaged_max_ptes_shared) {
result = SCAN_EXCEED_SHARED_PTE;
count_vm_event(THP_SCAN_EXCEED_SHARED_PTE);
+ count_mthp_stat(order, MTHP_STAT_COLLAPSE_EXCEED_SHARED);
goto out;
}
}
@@ -1082,6 +1091,7 @@ static enum scan_result __collapse_huge_page_swapin(struct mm_struct *mm,
* range.
*/
if (!is_pmd_order(order)) {
+ count_mthp_stat(order, MTHP_STAT_COLLAPSE_EXCEED_SWAP);
pte_unmap(pte);
mmap_read_unlock(mm);
result = SCAN_EXCEED_SWAP_PTE;
--
2.52.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-01-22 19:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-01-22 19:28 [PATCH mm-unstable v14 00/16] khugepaged: mTHP support Nico Pache
2026-01-22 19:28 ` [PATCH mm-unstable v14 01/16] mm: introduce is_pmd_order helper Nico Pache
2026-01-22 19:28 ` [PATCH mm-unstable v14 02/16] khugepaged: rename hpage_collapse_* to collapse_* Nico Pache
2026-01-22 19:28 ` [PATCH mm-unstable v14 03/16] introduce collapse_single_pmd to unify khugepaged and madvise_collapse Nico Pache
2026-01-23 5:07 ` Lance Yang
2026-01-23 9:31 ` Baolin Wang
2026-01-26 12:25 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-01-23 23:26 ` Nico Pache
2026-01-24 4:41 ` Lance Yang
2026-01-26 12:25 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-01-26 11:40 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-01-26 15:09 ` Andrew Morton
2026-01-26 15:18 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-01-28 16:38 ` Nico Pache
2026-02-03 11:43 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-02-03 11:35 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-01-22 19:28 ` [PATCH mm-unstable v14 04/16] khugepaged: generalize hugepage_vma_revalidate for mTHP support Nico Pache
2026-01-22 19:28 ` [PATCH mm-unstable v14 05/16] khugepaged: generalize alloc_charge_folio() Nico Pache
2026-01-22 19:28 ` [PATCH mm-unstable v14 06/16] khugepaged: generalize __collapse_huge_page_* for mTHP support Nico Pache
2026-01-22 19:28 ` [PATCH mm-unstable v14 07/16] khugepaged: introduce collapse_max_ptes_none helper function Nico Pache
2026-02-03 12:08 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-02-04 21:39 ` Nico Pache
2026-02-06 17:44 ` Nico Pache
2026-02-16 15:16 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-01-22 19:28 ` [PATCH mm-unstable v14 08/16] khugepaged: generalize collapse_huge_page for mTHP collapse Nico Pache
2026-02-03 13:07 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-02-04 22:00 ` Nico Pache
2026-02-16 15:20 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-01-22 19:28 ` [PATCH mm-unstable v14 09/16] khugepaged: skip collapsing mTHP to smaller orders Nico Pache
2026-01-22 19:28 ` Nico Pache [this message]
2026-01-22 19:28 ` [PATCH mm-unstable v14 11/16] khugepaged: improve tracepoints for mTHP orders Nico Pache
2026-01-22 19:28 ` [PATCH mm-unstable v14 12/16] khugepaged: introduce collapse_allowable_orders helper function Nico Pache
2026-01-22 19:28 ` [PATCH mm-unstable v14 13/16] khugepaged: Introduce mTHP collapse support Nico Pache
2026-01-22 19:28 ` [PATCH mm-unstable v14 14/16] khugepaged: avoid unnecessary mTHP collapse attempts Nico Pache
2026-01-22 19:28 ` [PATCH mm-unstable v14 15/16] khugepaged: run khugepaged for all orders Nico Pache
2026-01-22 19:28 ` [PATCH mm-unstable v14 16/16] Documentation: mm: update the admin guide for mTHP collapse Nico Pache
2026-01-26 11:21 ` [PATCH mm-unstable v14 00/16] khugepaged: mTHP support Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-01-26 11:32 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-02-04 21:35 ` Nico Pache
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