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authorQi Zheng2022-06-04 16:22:09 +0800
committerakpm2022-06-16 19:48:29 -0700
commit673520f8da64f16077c1ecb190cbb38aa939fb41 (patch)
treec92d590367bb5310eba364302a5569b33f10100d /Documentation
parent153090f2c6d595c9636c582ed4b6c4dac1739a41 (diff)
mm: memcontrol: add {pgscan,pgsteal}_{kswapd,direct} items in memory.stat of cgroup v2
There are already statistics of {pgscan,pgsteal}_kswapd and {pgscan,pgsteal}_direct of memcg event here, but now only the sum of the two is displayed in memory.stat of cgroup v2. In order to obtain more accurate information during monitoring and debugging, and to align with the display in /proc/vmstat, it better to display {pgscan,pgsteal}_kswapd and {pgscan,pgsteal}_direct separately. Also, for forward compatibility, we still display pgscan and pgsteal items so that it won't break existing applications. [zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com: add comment for memcg_vm_event_stat (suggested by Michal)] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220606154028.55030-1-zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com [zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com: fix the doc, thanks to Johannes] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220607064803.79363-1-zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220604082209.55174-1-zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Acked-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com> Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst24
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst
index 176298f2f4de..ad9ba3ec90a5 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst
@@ -1433,6 +1433,24 @@ PAGE_SIZE multiple when read back.
workingset_nodereclaim
Number of times a shadow node has been reclaimed
+ pgscan (npn)
+ Amount of scanned pages (in an inactive LRU list)
+
+ pgsteal (npn)
+ Amount of reclaimed pages
+
+ pgscan_kswapd (npn)
+ Amount of scanned pages by kswapd (in an inactive LRU list)
+
+ pgscan_direct (npn)
+ Amount of scanned pages directly (in an inactive LRU list)
+
+ pgsteal_kswapd (npn)
+ Amount of reclaimed pages by kswapd
+
+ pgsteal_direct (npn)
+ Amount of reclaimed pages directly
+
pgfault (npn)
Total number of page faults incurred
@@ -1442,12 +1460,6 @@ PAGE_SIZE multiple when read back.
pgrefill (npn)
Amount of scanned pages (in an active LRU list)
- pgscan (npn)
- Amount of scanned pages (in an inactive LRU list)
-
- pgsteal (npn)
- Amount of reclaimed pages
-
pgactivate (npn)
Amount of pages moved to the active LRU list