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mm-vmstat-add-nrswpinout-counters.patch removed from -mm tree

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The quilt patch titled
Subject: mm/vmstat: add NRSWP{IN,OUT} counters
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
mm-vmstat-add-nrswpinout-counters.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-stable branch of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Subject: mm/vmstat: add NRSWP{IN,OUT} counters
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2026 11:33:44 +0200

Count how many swap I/Os we cause. Due to batching this can be different than the current counter number of pages written/read, and tracking this information is useful to see how efficient the batching is.

The counters are added at the end of enum vm_event_item and the vmstat_text array under the assumption that the order of fields in /proc/vmstat is an ABI. If that is not the case, they could be grouped with the other swap counters.

---

 include/linux/vm_event_item.h |    4 ++++
 mm/page_io.c                  |    2 ++
 mm/vmstat.c                   |    6 +++++-
 3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
include/linux/vm_event_item.h renamed from include/linux/vm_event_item.h~mm-vmstat-add-nrswpinout-counters +4 -0
@@ -175,6 +175,10 @@ enum vm_event_item { PGPGIN, PGPGOUT, PS
 		KSTACK_REST,
 #endif
 #endif /* CONFIG_DEBUG_STACK_USAGE */
+#ifdef CONFIG_SWAP
+		NRSWPIN,
+		NRSWPOUT,
+#endif /* CONFIG_SWAP */
 		NR_VM_EVENT_ITEMS
 };
 
mm/page_io.c renamed from mm/page_io.c~mm-vmstat-add-nrswpinout-counters +2 -0
@@ -704,6 +704,7 @@ void swap_write_submit(struct swap_io_ct
 {
 	if (!ctx->sio)
 		return;
+	count_vm_events(NRSWPOUT, 1);
 	ctx->sis->ops->submit_write(ctx);
 	ctx->sio = NULL;
 	ctx->sis = NULL;
@@ -713,6 +714,7 @@ void swap_read_submit(struct swap_io_ctx
 {
 	if (!ctx->sio)
 		return;
+	count_vm_events(NRSWPIN, 1);
 	ctx->sis->ops->submit_read(ctx);
 	ctx->sio = NULL;
 	ctx->sis = NULL;
mm/vmstat.c renamed from mm/vmstat.c~mm-vmstat-add-nrswpinout-counters +5 -1
@@ -1502,7 +1502,11 @@ const char * const vmstat_text[] = {
 #if THREAD_SIZE > 65536
 	[I(KSTACK_REST)]			= "kstack_rest",
 #endif
-#endif
+#endif /* CONFIG_DEBUG_STACK_USAGE */
+#ifdef CONFIG_SWAP
+	[I(NRSWPIN)]				= "nrswpin",
+	[I(NRSWPOUT)]				= "nrswpout",
+#endif /* CONFIG_SWAP */
 #undef I
 #endif /* CONFIG_VM_EVENT_COUNTERS */
 };

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