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mm, THP, doc: Add document for thp_swpout/thp_swpout_fallback

Add document for newly added thp_swpout, thp_swpout_fallback fields in
/proc/vmstat.

Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Huang Ying 7 years ago
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      Documentation/vm/transhuge.rst

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Documentation/vm/transhuge.rst

@@ -355,6 +355,15 @@ thp_zero_page_alloc_failed
 	is incremented if kernel fails to allocate
 	is incremented if kernel fails to allocate
 	huge zero page and falls back to using small pages.
 	huge zero page and falls back to using small pages.
 
 
+thp_swpout
+	is incremented every time a huge page is swapout in one
+	piece without splitting.
+
+thp_swpout_fallback
+	is incremented if a huge page has to be split before swapout.
+	Usually because failed to allocate some continuous swap space
+	for the huge page.
+
 As the system ages, allocating huge pages may be expensive as the
 As the system ages, allocating huge pages may be expensive as the
 system uses memory compaction to copy data around memory to free a
 system uses memory compaction to copy data around memory to free a
 huge page for use. There are some counters in ``/proc/vmstat`` to help
 huge page for use. There are some counters in ``/proc/vmstat`` to help