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Diffstat (limited to 'mm/Kconfig.debug')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/Kconfig.debug | 10 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/Kconfig.debug b/mm/Kconfig.debug index 6dae63b46368..a925415b4d10 100644 --- a/mm/Kconfig.debug +++ b/mm/Kconfig.debug @@ -274,6 +274,12 @@ config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_AUTO_SCAN config PER_VMA_LOCK_STATS bool "Statistics for per-vma locks" depends on PER_VMA_LOCK - default y help - Statistics for per-vma locks. + Say Y here to enable success, retry and failure counters of page + faults handled under protection of per-vma locks. When enabled, the + counters are exposed in /proc/vmstat. This information is useful for + kernel developers to evaluate effectiveness of per-vma locks and to + identify pathological cases. Counting these events introduces a small + overhead in the page fault path. + + If in doubt, say N. |