Re: [lkp] [shmem] 071904e8df: meminfo.AnonHugePages +553.5% increase

[Andrew Morton]

On Thu, 4 Aug 2016 16:54:09 +0800 kernel test robot <xiaolong.ye@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> FYI, we noticed meminfo.AnonHugePages +553.5% increase due to commit:
> 
> commit 071904e8dfed9525f9da86523caf78b6da5f9e7e ("shmem: get_unmapped_area align huge page")
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git master

hm, that seems like a good thing.

>     20428   9%    +553.5%     133500   7%  meminfo.AnonHugePages
>     42717   4%    +261.3%     154340   6%  meminfo.AnonPages

But AnonPages increased tremendously as well.

Not sure I understand this...