From 915418088c977993933efaf7a704c0bcd6c2bf77 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: SeongJae Park Date: Mon, 9 May 2022 18:20:52 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Docs/{ABI,admin-guide}/damon: update for fixed virtual address ranges monitoring This commit documents the user space support of the newly added monitoring operations set for fixed virtual address ranges monitoring, namely 'fvaddr', on the ABI and usage documents for DAMON. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220426231750.48822-4-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-damon | 14 ++++++++------ Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst | 14 +++++++++++--- 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-damon b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-damon index d724b8a..fab97ea 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//contexts//operations Date: Mar 2022 Contact: SeongJae Park 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//contexts//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 af6ffae..9c67311 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 ` 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//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//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//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//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. -- 2.7.4