From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9DE3C3DA71 for ; Sat, 17 Dec 2022 00:00:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S230300AbiLQAAT (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Dec 2022 19:00:19 -0500 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:40090 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S230245AbiLPX7w (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Dec 2022 18:59:52 -0500 Received: from ams.source.kernel.org (ams.source.kernel.org [145.40.68.75]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6E84273B31 for ; Fri, 16 Dec 2022 15:59:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.kernel.org (relay.kernel.org [52.25.139.140]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ams.source.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 22845B81E29 for ; Fri, 16 Dec 2022 23:59:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id CE638C433F1; Fri, 16 Dec 2022 23:59:48 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linux-foundation.org; s=korg; t=1671235188; bh=FCdXHmNEfkCaHjXD+eo+4aga99x9H3jxS/vxmWKpmAg=; h=Date:To:From:Subject:From; b=h0QSOy4ftWpctNrLQ4F4bPuh2LWHO4kYOomwA8BdNKloZesXZT+laI0hVcaRwdNO7 +B2ya2Tidk50PNlVeraClStqR8cWBdcSJQEgHEeZr9ABauu++jY2fJ6zid7p1xyTPU 4WEtkJSeBjMdWmyx0JOPNQqDRKHQMzYQ8oyybfdM= Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2022 15:59:48 -0800 To: mm-commits@vger.kernel.org, shuah@kernel.org, corbet@lwn.net, sj@kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org From: Andrew Morton Subject: + docs-admin-guide-mm-damon-usage-document-damos-filters-of-sysfs.patch added to mm-unstable branch Message-Id: <20221216235948.CE638C433F1@smtp.kernel.org> Precedence: bulk Reply-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: mm-commits@vger.kernel.org The patch titled Subject: Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: document DAMOS filters of sysfs has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch. Its filename is docs-admin-guide-mm-damon-usage-document-damos-filters-of-sysfs.patch This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/docs-admin-guide-mm-damon-usage-document-damos-filters-of-sysfs.patch This patch will later appear in the mm-unstable branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next via the mm-everything branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm and is updated there every 2-3 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: SeongJae Park Subject: Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: document DAMOS filters of sysfs Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2022 23:08:29 +0000 Document about the newly added files for DAMOS filters on the DAMON usage document. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221205230830.144349-11-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Shuah Khan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst | 48 ++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 46 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst~docs-admin-guide-mm-damon-usage-document-damos-filters-of-sysfs +++ a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst @@ -87,6 +87,8 @@ comma (","). :: │ │ │ │ │ │ │ quotas/ms,bytes,reset_interval_ms │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ weights/sz_permil,nr_accesses_permil,age_permil │ │ │ │ │ │ │ watermarks/metric,interval_us,high,mid,low + │ │ │ │ │ │ │ filters/nr_filters + │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 0/type,matching,memcg_id │ │ │ │ │ │ │ stats/nr_tried,sz_tried,nr_applied,sz_applied,qt_exceeds │ │ │ │ │ │ │ tried_regions/ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 0/start,end,nr_accesses,age @@ -151,6 +153,8 @@ number (``N``) to the file creates the n moment, only one context per kdamond is supported, so only ``0`` or ``1`` can be written to the file. +.. _sysfs_contexts: + contexts// ------------- @@ -268,8 +272,8 @@ schemes// ------------ In each scheme directory, five directories (``access_pattern``, ``quotas``, -``watermarks``, ``stats``, and ``tried_regions``) and one file (``action``) -exist. +``watermarks``, ``filters``, ``stats``, and ``tried_regions``) and one file +(``action``) exist. The ``action`` file is for setting and getting what action you want to apply to memory regions having specific access pattern of the interest. The keywords @@ -347,6 +351,46 @@ as below. The ``interval`` should written in microseconds unit. +schemes//filters/ +-------------------- + +Users could know something more than the kernel for specific types of memory. +In the case, users could do their own management for the memory and hence +doesn't want DAMOS bothers that. Users could limit DAMOS by setting the access +pattern of the scheme and/or the monitoring regions for the purpose, but that +can be inefficient in some cases. In such cases, users could set non-access +pattern driven filters using files in this directory. + +In the beginning, this directory has only one file, ``nr_filters``. Writing a +number (``N``) to the file creates the number of child directories named ``0`` +to ``N-1``. Each directory represents each filter. The filters are evaluated +in the numeric order. + +Each filter directory contains three files, namely ``type``, ``matcing``, and +``memcg_path``. You can write one of two special keywords, ``anon`` for +anonymous pages, or ``memcg`` for specific memory cgroup filtering. In case of +the memory cgroup filtering, you can specify the memory cgroup of the interest +by writing the path of the memory cgroup from the cgroups mount point to +``memcg_path`` file. You can write ``Y`` or ``N`` to ``matching`` file to +filter out pages that does or does not match to the type, respectively. Then, +the scheme's action will not be applied to the pages that specified to be +filtered out. + +For example, below restricts a DAMOS action to be applied to only non-anonymous +pages of all memory cgroups except ``/having_care_already``.:: + + # echo 2 > nr_filters + # # filter out anonymous pages + echo anon > 0/type + echo Y > 0/matching + # # further filter out all cgroups except one at '/having_care_already' + echo memcg > 1/type + echo /having_care_already > 1/memcg_path + echo N > 1/matching + +Note that filters could be ignored depend on the running DAMON operations set +`implementation `. + .. _sysfs_schemes_stats: schemes//stats/ _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from sj@kernel.org are mm-damon-core-implement-damos-filter.patch mm-damon-paddr-support-damos-filters.patch mm-damon-reclaim-add-a-parameter-called-skip_anon-for-avoiding-anonymous-pages-reclamation.patch docs-admin-guide-damon-reclaim-document-skip_anon-parameter.patch mm-damon-sysfs-schemes-implement-filters-directory.patch mm-damon-sysfs-schemes-implement-filter-directory.patch mm-damon-sysfs-schemes-connect-filter-directory-and-filters-directory.patch mm-damon-sysfs-schemes-implement-scheme-filters.patch selftests-damon-sysfs-test-filters-directory.patch docs-admin-guide-mm-damon-usage-document-damos-filters-of-sysfs.patch docs-abi-damon-document-scheme-filters-files.patch