diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-ksm b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-ksm
index d244674a9480..6041a025b65a 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-ksm
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-ksm
@@ -51,3 +51,11 @@ Description:	Control merging pages across different NUMA nodes.
 
 		When it is set to 0 only pages from the same node are merged,
 		otherwise pages from all nodes can be merged together (default).
+
+What:		/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/general_profit
+Date:		April 2023
+KernelVersion:  6.4
+Contact:	Linux memory management mailing list <linux-mm@kvack.org>
+Description:	Measure how effective KSM is.
+		general_profit: how effective is KSM. The formula for the
+		calculation is in Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst.
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst
index eed51a910c94..551083a396fb 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst
@@ -157,6 +157,8 @@ stable_node_chains_prune_millisecs
 
 The effectiveness of KSM and MADV_MERGEABLE is shown in ``/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/``:
 
+general_profit
+        how effective is KSM. The calculation is explained below.
 pages_shared
         how many shared pages are being used
 pages_sharing
@@ -207,7 +209,8 @@ several times, which are unprofitable memory consumed.
 			  ksm_rmap_items * sizeof(rmap_item).
 
    where ksm_merging_pages is shown under the directory ``/proc/<pid>/``,
-   and ksm_rmap_items is shown in ``/proc/<pid>/ksm_stat``.
+   and ksm_rmap_items is shown in ``/proc/<pid>/ksm_stat``. The process profit
+   is also shown in ``/proc/<pid>/ksm_stat`` as ksm_process_profit.
 
 From the perspective of application, a high ratio of ``ksm_rmap_items`` to
 ``ksm_merging_pages`` means a bad madvise-applied policy, so developers or
diff --git a/fs/proc/base.c b/fs/proc/base.c
index 5e0e0ccd47aa..96a6a08c8235 100644
--- a/fs/proc/base.c
+++ b/fs/proc/base.c
@@ -96,6 +96,7 @@
 #include <linux/time_namespace.h>
 #include <linux/resctrl.h>
 #include <linux/cn_proc.h>
+#include <linux/ksm.h>
 #include <trace/events/oom.h>
 #include "internal.h"
 #include "fd.h"
@@ -3207,6 +3208,8 @@ static int proc_pid_ksm_stat(struct seq_file *m, struct pid_namespace *ns,
 	mm = get_task_mm(task);
 	if (mm) {
 		seq_printf(m, "ksm_rmap_items %lu\n", mm->ksm_rmap_items);
+		seq_printf(m, "ksm_merging_pages %lu\n", mm->ksm_merging_pages);
+		seq_printf(m, "ksm_process_profit %ld\n", ksm_process_profit(mm));
 		mmput(mm);
 	}
 
diff --git a/include/linux/ksm.h b/include/linux/ksm.h
index fa996373653b..590934bdddcf 100644
--- a/include/linux/ksm.h
+++ b/include/linux/ksm.h
@@ -64,6 +64,10 @@ struct page *ksm_might_need_to_copy(struct page *page,
 void rmap_walk_ksm(struct folio *folio, struct rmap_walk_control *rwc);
 void folio_migrate_ksm(struct folio *newfolio, struct folio *folio);
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS
+long ksm_process_profit(struct mm_struct *);
+#endif /* CONFIG_PROC_FS */
+
 #else  /* !CONFIG_KSM */
 
 static inline void ksm_add_vma(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
diff --git a/mm/ksm.c b/mm/ksm.c
index 1c81e4408af1..905c8edce5cf 100644
--- a/mm/ksm.c
+++ b/mm/ksm.c
@@ -2964,6 +2964,14 @@ static void wait_while_offlining(void)
 }
 #endif /* CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE */
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS
+long ksm_process_profit(struct mm_struct *mm)
+{
+	return mm->ksm_merging_pages * PAGE_SIZE -
+		mm->ksm_rmap_items * sizeof(struct ksm_rmap_item);
+}
+#endif /* CONFIG_PROC_FS */
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_SYSFS
 /*
  * This all compiles without CONFIG_SYSFS, but is a waste of space.
@@ -3228,6 +3236,18 @@ static ssize_t pages_volatile_show(struct kobject *kobj,
 }
 KSM_ATTR_RO(pages_volatile);
 
+static ssize_t general_profit_show(struct kobject *kobj,
+				   struct kobj_attribute *attr, char *buf)
+{
+	long general_profit;
+
+	general_profit = ksm_pages_sharing * PAGE_SIZE -
+				ksm_rmap_items * sizeof(struct ksm_rmap_item);
+
+	return sysfs_emit(buf, "%ld\n", general_profit);
+}
+KSM_ATTR_RO(general_profit);
+
 static ssize_t stable_node_dups_show(struct kobject *kobj,
 				     struct kobj_attribute *attr, char *buf)
 {
@@ -3292,6 +3312,7 @@ static struct attribute *ksm_attrs[] = {
 	&stable_node_dups_attr.attr,
 	&stable_node_chains_prune_millisecs_attr.attr,
 	&use_zero_pages_attr.attr,
+	&general_profit_attr.attr,
 	NULL,
 };
 
