Re: [RFC PATCH] mm/shmem: add mTHP swpout fallback statistics in shmem_writeout()

[Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>]

On 2025/12/12 11:12, Weilin Tong wrote:
> Currently, when shmem mTHPs are split and swapped out via shmem_writeout(),
> there are no unified statistics to trace these mTHP swpout fallback events.
> This makes it difficult to analyze the prevalence of mTHP splitting and
> fallback during swap operations, which is important for memory diagnostics.
> 
> Here we add statistics counting for mTHP fallback to small pages
> when splitting and swapping out in shmem_writeout().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Weilin Tong <tongweilin@linux.alibaba.com>
> ---

Looks reasonable to me. Thanks.
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>

>   mm/shmem.c | 12 ++++++++++++
>   1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
> index 3f194c9842a8..aa624c447358 100644
> --- a/mm/shmem.c
> +++ b/mm/shmem.c
> @@ -1593,11 +1593,23 @@ int shmem_writeout(struct folio *folio, struct swap_iocb **plug,
>   	}
>   
>   	if (split) {
> +		int order;
> +
>   try_split:
> +		order = folio_order(folio);
>   		/* Ensure the subpages are still dirty */
>   		folio_test_set_dirty(folio);
>   		if (split_folio_to_list(folio, folio_list))
>   			goto redirty;
> +
> +#ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
> +		if (order >= HPAGE_PMD_ORDER) {
> +			count_memcg_folio_events(folio, THP_SWPOUT_FALLBACK, 1);
> +			count_vm_event(THP_SWPOUT_FALLBACK);
> +		}
> +#endif
> +		count_mthp_stat(order, MTHP_STAT_SWPOUT_FALLBACK);
> +
>   		folio_clear_dirty(folio);
>   	}
>