Merge branch 'stable-3.2' into pandora-3.2

[pandora-kernel.git] / Documentation / trace / events-kmem.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/trace/events-kmem.txt b/Documentation/trace/events-kmem.txt
index aa82ee4..1948004 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/trace/events-kmem.txt
+++ b/Documentation/trace/events-kmem.txt
@@ -40,8 +40,8 @@ but the call_site can usually be used to extrapolate that information.
 ==================
 mm_page_alloc            page=%p pfn=%lu order=%d migratetype=%d gfp_flags=%s
 mm_page_alloc_zone_locked page=%p pfn=%lu order=%u migratetype=%d cpu=%d percpu_refill=%d
-mm_page_free_direct      page=%p pfn=%lu order=%d
-mm_pagevec_free                  page=%p pfn=%lu order=%d cold=%d
+mm_page_free             page=%p pfn=%lu order=%d
+mm_page_free_batched     page=%p pfn=%lu order=%d cold=%d
 
 These four events deal with page allocation and freeing. mm_page_alloc is
 a simple indicator of page allocator activity. Pages may be allocated from
@@ -53,13 +53,13 @@ amounts of activity imply high activity on the zone->lock. Taking this lock
 impairs performance by disabling interrupts, dirtying cache lines between
 CPUs and serialising many CPUs.
 
-When a page is freed directly by the caller, the mm_page_free_direct event
+When a page is freed directly by the caller, the only mm_page_free event
 is triggered. Significant amounts of activity here could indicate that the
 callers should be batching their activities.
 
-When pages are freed using a pagevec, the mm_pagevec_free is
-triggered. Broadly speaking, pages are taken off the LRU lock in bulk and
-freed in batch with a pagevec. Significant amounts of activity here could
+When pages are freed in batch, the also mm_page_free_batched is triggered.
+Broadly speaking, pages are taken off the LRU lock in bulk and
+freed in batch with a page list. Significant amounts of activity here could
 indicate that the system is under memory pressure and can also indicate
 contention on the zone->lru_lock.