* [merged mm-stable] docs-admin-guide-mm-damon-add-damon_stat-usage-document.patch removed from -mm tree
@ 2025-07-10 5:43 Andrew Morton
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From: Andrew Morton @ 2025-07-10 5:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: mm-commits, corbet, sj, akpm
The quilt patch titled
Subject: Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon: add DAMON_STAT usage document
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
docs-admin-guide-mm-damon-add-damon_stat-usage-document.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-stable branch
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
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From: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Subject: Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon: add DAMON_STAT usage document
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2025 11:31:27 -0700
Document DAMON_STAT usage and add a link to it on DAMON admin-guide page.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250604183127.13968-5-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---
Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/index.rst | 1
Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/stat.rst | 69 +++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 70 insertions(+)
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/index.rst~docs-admin-guide-mm-damon-add-damon_stat-usage-document
+++ a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/index.rst
@@ -14,3 +14,4 @@ access monitoring and access-aware syste
usage
reclaim
lru_sort
+ stat
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/stat.rst a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/stat.rst
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/stat.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+===================================
+Data Access Monitoring Results Stat
+===================================
+
+Data Access Monitoring Results Stat (DAMON_STAT) is a static kernel module that
+is aimed to be used for simple access pattern monitoring. It monitors accesses
+on the system's entire physical memory using DAMON, and provides simplified
+access monitoring results statistics, namely idle time percentiles and
+estimated memory bandwidth.
+
+Monitoring Accuracy and Overhead
+================================
+
+DAMON_STAT uses monitoring intervals :ref:`auto-tuning
+<damon_design_monitoring_intervals_autotuning>` to make its accuracy high and
+overhead minimum. It auto-tunes the intervals aiming 4 % of observable access
+events to be captured in each snapshot, while limiting the resulting sampling
+events to be 5 milliseconds in minimum and 10 seconds in maximum. On a few
+production server systems, it resulted in consuming only 0.x % single CPU time,
+while capturing reasonable quality of access patterns.
+
+Interface: Module Parameters
+============================
+
+To use this feature, you should first ensure your system is running on a kernel
+that is built with ``CONFIG_DAMON_STAT=y``. The feature can be enabled by
+default at build time, by setting ``CONFIG_DAMON_STAT_ENABLED_DEFAULT`` true.
+
+To let sysadmins enable or disable it at boot and/or runtime, and read the
+monitoring results, DAMON_STAT provides module parameters. Following
+sections are descriptions of the parameters.
+
+enabled
+-------
+
+Enable or disable DAMON_STAT.
+
+You can enable DAMON_STAT by setting the value of this parameter as ``Y``.
+Setting it as ``N`` disables DAMON_STAT. The default value is set by
+``CONFIG_DAMON_STAT_ENABLED_DEFAULT`` build config option.
+
+estimated_memory_bandwidth
+--------------------------
+
+Estimated memory bandwidth consumption (bytes per second) of the system.
+
+DAMON_STAT reads observed access events on the current DAMON results snapshot
+and converts it to memory bandwidth consumption estimation in bytes per second.
+The resulting metric is exposed to user via this read-only parameter. Because
+DAMON uses sampling, this is only an estimation of the access intensity rather
+than accurate memory bandwidth.
+
+memory_idle_ms_percentiles
+--------------------------
+
+Per-byte idle time (milliseconds) percentiles of the system.
+
+DAMON_STAT calculates how long each byte of the memory was not accessed until
+now (idle time), based on the current DAMON results snapshot. If DAMON found a
+region of access frequency (nr_accesses) larger than zero, every byte of the
+region gets zero idle time. If a region has zero access frequency
+(nr_accesses), how long the region was keeping the zero access frequency (age)
+becomes the idle time of every byte of the region. Then, DAMON_STAT exposes
+the percentiles of the idle time values via this read-only parameter. Reading
+the parameter returns 101 idle time values in milliseconds, separated by comma.
+Each value represents 0-th, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, ..., 99th and 100th percentile idle
+times.
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from sj@kernel.org are
selftests-damon-add-drgn-script-for-extracting-damon-status.patch
selftests-damon-_damon_sysfs-set-kdamondpid-in-start.patch
selftests-damon-add-python-and-drgn-based-damon-sysfs-test.patch
selftests-damon-sysfspy-test-monitoring-attribute-parameters.patch
selftests-damon-sysfspy-test-adaptive-targets-parameter.patch
selftests-damon-sysfspy-test-damos-schemes-parameters-setup.patch
mm-damon-add-trace-event-for-auto-tuned-monitoring-intervals.patch
mm-damon-add-trace-event-for-effective-size-quota.patch
mm-damon-add-trace-event-for-effective-size-quota-fix.patch
mm-damon-add-trace-event-for-effective-size-quota-fix-2.patch
samples-damon-wsse-fix-boot-time-enable-handling.patch
samples-damon-prcl-fix-boot-time-enable-crash.patch
samples-damon-mtier-support-boot-time-enable-setup.patch
mm-damon-reclaim-reset-enabled-when-damon-start-failed.patch
mm-damon-lru_sort-reset-enabled-when-damon-start-failed.patch
mm-damon-reclaim-use-parameter-context-correctly.patch
samples-damon-wsse-rename-to-have-damon_sample_-prefix.patch
samples-damon-prcl-rename-to-have-damon_sample_-prefix.patch
samples-damon-mtier-rename-to-have-damon_sample_-prefix.patch
mm-damon-sysfs-use-damon-core-api-damon_is_running.patch
mm-damon-sysfs-dont-hold-kdamond_lock-in-before_terminate.patch
docs-mm-damon-maintainer-profile-update-for-mm-new-tree.patch
mm-damon-add-struct-damos_migrate_dests.patch
mm-damon-core-add-damos-migrate_dests-field.patch
mm-damon-sysfs-schemes-implement-damos-action-destinations-directory.patch
mm-damon-sysfs-schemes-set-damos-migrate_dests.patch
docs-abi-damon-document-schemes-dests-directory.patch
docs-admin-guide-mm-damon-usage-document-dests-directory.patch
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