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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-damon | 14 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst | 14 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-damon b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-damon index d724b8a12228..fab97ea22569 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-damon +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-damon @@ -50,12 +50,14 @@ What: /sys/kernel/mm/damon/admin/kdamonds/<K>/contexts/<C>/operations Date: Mar 2022 Contact: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Description: Writing a keyword for a monitoring operations set ('vaddr' for - virtual address spaces monitoring, and 'paddr' for the physical - address space monitoring) to this file makes the context to use - the operations set. Reading the file returns the keyword for - the operations set the context is set to use. Note that only - the operations sets that listed in 'avail_operations' file are - valid inputs. + virtual address spaces monitoring, 'fvaddr' for fixed virtual + address ranges monitoring, and 'paddr' for the physical address + space monitoring) to this file makes the context to use the + operations set. Reading the file returns the keyword for the + operations set the context is set to use. + + Note that only the operations sets that listed in + 'avail_operations' file are valid inputs. What: /sys/kernel/mm/damon/admin/kdamonds/<K>/contexts/<C>/monitoring_attrs/intervals/sample_us Date: Mar 2022 diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst index af6ffaea567b..9c67311a79d8 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst @@ -154,8 +154,13 @@ available monitoring operations set on the currently running kernel by reading list some or all of below keywords. - vaddr: Monitor virtual address spaces of specific processes + - fvaddr: Monitor fixed virtual address ranges - paddr: Monitor the physical address space of the system +Please refer to :ref:`regions sysfs directory <sysfs_regions>` for detailed +differences between the operations sets in terms of the monitoring target +regions. + You can set and get what type of monitoring operations DAMON will use for the context by writing one of the keywords listed in ``avail_operations`` file and reading from the ``operations`` file. @@ -198,6 +203,8 @@ If you wrote ``vaddr`` to the ``contexts/<N>/operations``, each target should be a process. You can specify the process to DAMON by writing the pid of the process to the ``pid_target`` file. +.. _sysfs_regions: + targets/<N>/regions ------------------- @@ -208,9 +215,10 @@ can be covered. However, users could want to set the initial monitoring region to specific address ranges. In contrast, DAMON do not automatically sets and updates the monitoring target -regions when ``paddr`` monitoring operations set is being used (``paddr`` is -written to the ``contexts/<N>/operations``). Therefore, users should set the -monitoring target regions by themselves in the case. +regions when ``fvaddr`` or ``paddr`` monitoring operations sets are being used +(``fvaddr`` or ``paddr`` have written to the ``contexts/<N>/operations``). +Therefore, users should set the monitoring target regions by themselves in the +cases. For such cases, users can explicitly set the initial monitoring target regions as they want, by writing proper values to the files under this directory. |