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authorSeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>2024-01-30 04:35:47 +0300
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2024-02-22 21:24:46 +0300
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Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: update for monitor_on renaming
Update DAMON debugfs interface sections on the usage document to reflect the fact that 'monitor_on' file has renamed to 'monitor_on_DEPRECATED'. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240130013549.89538-9-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org> Cc: Hu Haowen <2023002089@link.tyut.edu.cn> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Cc: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst29
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst
index 5d3df18dfb9f..58c34e66b31b 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst
@@ -629,8 +629,9 @@ debugfs Interface (DEPRECATED!)
linux-mm@kvack.org.
DAMON exports nine files, ``DEPRECATED``, ``attrs``, ``target_ids``,
-``init_regions``, ``schemes``, ``monitor_on``, ``kdamond_pid``, ``mk_contexts``
-and ``rm_contexts`` under its debugfs directory, ``<debugfs>/damon/``.
+``init_regions``, ``schemes``, ``monitor_on_DEPRECATED``, ``kdamond_pid``,
+``mk_contexts`` and ``rm_contexts`` under its debugfs directory,
+``<debugfs>/damon/``.
``DEPRECATED`` is a read-only file for the DAMON debugfs interface deprecation
@@ -855,16 +856,16 @@ Turning On/Off
Setting the files as described above doesn't incur effect unless you explicitly
start the monitoring. You can start, stop, and check the current status of the
-monitoring by writing to and reading from the ``monitor_on`` file. Writing
-``on`` to the file starts the monitoring of the targets with the attributes.
-Writing ``off`` to the file stops those. DAMON also stops if every target
-process is terminated. Below example commands turn on, off, and check the
-status of DAMON::
+monitoring by writing to and reading from the ``monitor_on_DEPRECATED`` file.
+Writing ``on`` to the file starts the monitoring of the targets with the
+attributes. Writing ``off`` to the file stops those. DAMON also stops if
+every target process is terminated. Below example commands turn on, off, and
+check the status of DAMON::
# cd <debugfs>/damon
- # echo on > monitor_on
- # echo off > monitor_on
- # cat monitor_on
+ # echo on > monitor_on_DEPRECATED
+ # echo off > monitor_on_DEPRECATED
+ # cat monitor_on_DEPRECATED
off
Please note that you cannot write to the above-mentioned debugfs files while
@@ -880,11 +881,11 @@ can get the pid of the thread by reading the ``kdamond_pid`` file. When the
monitoring is turned off, reading the file returns ``none``. ::
# cd <debugfs>/damon
- # cat monitor_on
+ # cat monitor_on_DEPRECATED
off
# cat kdamond_pid
none
- # echo on > monitor_on
+ # echo on > monitor_on_DEPRECATED
# cat kdamond_pid
18594
@@ -914,5 +915,5 @@ directory by putting the name of the context to the ``rm_contexts`` file. ::
# ls foo
# ls: cannot access 'foo': No such file or directory
-Note that ``mk_contexts``, ``rm_contexts``, and ``monitor_on`` files are in the
-root directory only.
+Note that ``mk_contexts``, ``rm_contexts``, and ``monitor_on_DEPRECATED`` files
+are in the root directory only.