as they want, by writing proper values to the ``init_regions`` file. Each line
of the input should represent one region in below form.::
- <target id> <start address> <end address>
+ <target idx> <start address> <end address>
-The ``target id`` should already in ``target_ids`` file, and the regions should
-be passed in address order. For example, below commands will set a couple of
-address ranges, ``1-100`` and ``100-200`` as the initial monitoring target
-region of process 42, and another couple of address ranges, ``20-40`` and
-``50-100`` as that of process 4242.::
+The ``target idx`` should be the index of the target in ``target_ids`` file,
+starting from ``0``, and the regions should be passed in address order. For
+example, below commands will set a couple of address ranges, ``1-100`` and
+``100-200`` as the initial monitoring target region of pid 42, which is the
+first one (index ``0``) in ``target_ids``, and another couple of address
+ranges, ``20-40`` and ``50-100`` as that of pid 4242, which is the second one
+(index ``1``) in ``target_ids``.::
# cd <debugfs>/damon
- # echo "42 1 100
- 42 100 200
- 4242 20 40
- 4242 50 100" > init_regions
+ # cat target_ids
+ 42 4242
+ # echo "0 1 100
+ 0 100 200
+ 1 20 40
+ 1 50 100" > init_regions
Note that this sets the initial monitoring target regions only. In case of
virtual memory monitoring, DAMON will automatically updates the boundary of the