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As pages_sharing and pages_shared don't include the number of zero pages merged by KSM, we cannot know how many pages are zero pages placed by KSM when enabling use_zero_pages, which leads to KSM not being transparent with all actual merged pages by KSM. In the early days of use_zero_pages, zero-pages was unable to get unshared by the ways like MADV_UNMERGEABLE so it's hard to count how many times one of those zeropages was then unmerged. But now, unsharing KSM-placed zero page accurately has been achieved, so we can easily count both how many times a page full of zeroes was merged with zero-page and how many times one of those pages was then unmerged. and so, it helps to estimate memory demands when each and every shared page could get unshared. So we add ksm_zero_pages under /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/ to show the number of all zero pages placed by KSM. Meanwhile, we update the Documentation. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230613030934.185944-1-yang.yang29@zte.com.cn Signed-off-by: xu xin <xu.xin16@zte.com.cn> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Xuexin Jiang <jiang.xuexin@zte.com.cn> Reviewed-by: Xiaokai Ran <ran.xiaokai@zte.com.cn> Reviewed-by: Yang Yang <yang.yang29@zte.com.cn> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.