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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst index 7626392fe82c..6cc919dbfd55 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 +ksm_zero_pages + how many zero pages that are still mapped into processes were mapped by + KSM when deduplicating. + +When ``use_zero_pages`` is/was enabled, the sum of ``pages_sharing`` + +``ksm_zero_pages`` represents the actual number of pages saved by KSM. +if ``use_zero_pages`` has never been enabled, ``ksm_zero_pages`` is 0. A high ratio of ``pages_sharing`` to ``pages_shared`` indicates good sharing, but a high ratio of ``pages_unshared`` to ``pages_sharing`` |