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From:   Pintu Kumar <pintu.ping@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 14 Sep 2018 19:58:01 +0530
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Subject: KSM not working in 4.9 Kernel
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        Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
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Hi All,

Board: Hikey620 ARM64
Kernel: 4.9.20

I am trying to verify KSM (Kernel Same Page Merging) functionality on
4.9 Kernel using "mmap" and madvise user space test utility.
But to my observation, it seems KSM is not working for me.
CONFIG_KSM=y is enabled in kernel.
ksm_init is also called during boot up.
  443 ?        SN     0:00 [ksmd]

ksmd thread is also running.

However, when I see the sysfs, no values are written.
~ # grep -H '' /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/*
/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/pages_hashed:0
/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/pages_scanned:0
/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/pages_shared:0
/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/pages_sharing:0
/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/pages_to_scan:200
/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/pages_unshared:0
/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/pages_volatile:0
/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run:1
/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/sleep_millisecs:1000

So, please let me know if I am doing any thing wrong.

This is the test utility:
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
        int i, n, size;
        char *buffer;
        void *addr;

        n = 100;
        size = 100 * getpagesize();
        for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
                buffer = (char *)malloc(size);
                memset(buffer, 0xff, size);
                addr =  mmap(NULL, size,
                           PROT_READ | PROT_EXEC | PROT_WRITE,
MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS,
                           -1, 0);
                madvise(addr, size, MADV_MERGEABLE);
                sleep(1);
        }
        printf("Done....press ^C\n");

        pause();

        return 0;
}


Thanks,
Pintu