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Subject: [PATCH 0/5] ksm: support tracking KSM-placed zero-pages
Date:   Sat,  8 Oct 2022 07:01:56 +0000
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From: xu xin <xu.xin16@zte.com.cn>

Before enabling use_zero_pages by setting /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/
use_zero_pages to 1, pages_sharing of KSM is basically accurate. But
when enabling use_zero_pages, all empty pages that are merged with
kernel zero page are not counted in pages_sharing or pages_shared.
That is because these empty pages are merged with zero-pages then no
longer managed by KSM, which leads to two issues at least:

1) MADV_UNMERGEABLE and other ways to trigger unsharing will *not*
   unshare the shared zeropage as placed by KSM (which is against the 
   MADV_UNMERGEABLE documentation at least); see the link:
   https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/4a3daba6-18f9-d252-697c-197f65578c44@redhat.com/

2) 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.

With the patch series, we can unshare zero-pages(KSM-placed) accurately
and count ksm zero pages.


*** BLURB HERE ***

xu xin (5):
  ksm: abstract the function try_to_get_old_rmap_item
  ksm: support unsharing zero pages placed by KSM
  ksm: count all zero pages placed by KSM
  ksm: count zero pages for each process
  ksm: add zero_pages_sharing documentation

 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst |  10 +-
 fs/proc/base.c                       |   1 +
 include/linux/mm_types.h             |   7 +-
 mm/ksm.c                             | 177 +++++++++++++++++++++------
 4 files changed, 157 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-)

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