mm: add docs for per-order mTHP counters and transhuge_page ABI

This patch includes documentation for mTHP counters and an ABI file for
sys-kernel-mm-transparent-hugepage, which appears to have been missing for
some time.

[v-songbaohua@oppo.com: fix the name and unexpected indentation]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240415054538.17071-1-21cnbao@gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240412114858.407208-4-21cnbao@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@oppo.com>
Reviewed-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>
Cc: Domenico Cerasuolo <cerasuolodomenico@gmail.com>
Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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What: /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/
Date: April 2024
Contact: Linux memory management mailing list <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Description:
/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/ contains a number of files and
subdirectories,
- defrag
- enabled
- hpage_pmd_size
- khugepaged
- shmem_enabled
- use_zero_page
- subdirectories of the form hugepages-<size>kB, where <size>
is the page size of the hugepages supported by the kernel/CPU
combination.
See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst for details.

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Usually because failed to allocate some continuous swap space Usually because failed to allocate some continuous swap space
for the huge page. for the huge page.
In /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/hugepages-<size>kB/stats, There are
also individual counters for each huge page size, which can be utilized to
monitor the system's effectiveness in providing huge pages for usage. Each
counter has its own corresponding file.
anon_fault_alloc
is incremented every time a huge page is successfully
allocated and charged to handle a page fault.
anon_fault_fallback
is incremented if a page fault fails to allocate or charge
a huge page and instead falls back to using huge pages with
lower orders or small pages.
anon_fault_fallback_charge
is incremented if a page fault fails to charge a huge page and
instead falls back to using huge pages with lower orders or
small pages even though the allocation was successful.
anon_swpout
is incremented every time a huge page is swapped out in one
piece without splitting.
anon_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