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Cc: Xiaokai Ran Cc: Yang Yang Cc: Jiang Xuexin Cc: Claudio Imbrenda Cc: David Hildenbrand Signed-off-by: xu xin --- Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst index fb6ba2002a4b..f160f9487a90 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst @@ -173,6 +173,13 @@ stable_node_chains the number of KSM pages that hit the ``max_page_sharing`` limit stable_node_dups number of duplicated KSM pages +zero_pages_sharing + how many empty pages are sharing kernel zero page(s) instead of + with each other as it would happen normally. Only effective when + enabling ``use_zero_pages`` knob. + +When enabling ``use_zero_pages``, the sum of ``pages_sharing`` + +``zero_pages_sharing`` represents how much really saved by KSM. A high ratio of ``pages_sharing`` to ``pages_shared`` indicates good sharing, but a high ratio of ``pages_unshared`` to ``pages_sharing``