[PATCH v2 0/2] ksm: count allocated rmap_items and update documentation

From: xu xin
Date: Wed Aug 24 2022 - 00:00:59 EST


KSM can save memory by merging identical pages, but also can consume
additional memory, because it needs to generate rmap_items to save
each scanned page's brief rmap information.

To determine how beneficial the ksm-policy (like madvise), they are using
brings, so we add a new interface /proc/<pid>/ksm_alloced_items for each
process to indicate the total allocated ksm rmap_items of this process.

The detailed description can be seen in the following patches' commit message.


*** BLURB HERE ***

xu xin (2):
ksm: count allocated ksm rmap_items for each process
ksm: add profit monitoring documentation

Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
fs/proc/base.c | 15 ++++++++++++
include/linux/mm_types.h | 5 ++++
mm/ksm.c | 2 ++
4 files changed, 58 insertions(+)

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