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From: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>,
	"Liam R. Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>, Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
	Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
	bijan311@gmail.com, damon@lists.linux.dev,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: [RFC PATCH 4/5] Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: document obsolete_target file
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2025 14:47:31 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251016214736.84286-5-sj@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251016214736.84286-1-sj@kernel.org>

Document the newly added obsolete_target DAMON sysfs file.

Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
---
 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst | 13 ++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst
index 98958975604d..d8a3d6e740b3 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ comma (",").
     │ │ │ │ │ │ │ intervals_goal/access_bp,aggrs,min_sample_us,max_sample_us
     │ │ │ │ │ │ nr_regions/min,max
     │ │ │ │ │ :ref:`targets <sysfs_targets>`/nr_targets
-    │ │ │ │ │ │ :ref:`0 <sysfs_target>`/pid_target
+    │ │ │ │ │ │ :ref:`0 <sysfs_target>`/pid_target,obsolete_target
     │ │ │ │ │ │ │ :ref:`regions <sysfs_regions>`/nr_regions
     │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ :ref:`0 <sysfs_region>`/start,end
     │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ...
@@ -264,13 +264,20 @@ to ``N-1``.  Each directory represents each monitoring target.
 targets/<N>/
 ------------
 
-In each target directory, one file (``pid_target``) and one directory
-(``regions``) exist.
+In each target directory, two files (``pid_target`` and ``obsolete_target``)
+and one directory (``regions``) exist.
 
 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.
 
+Users can selectively remove targets in the middle of the targets array by
+writing non-zero value to ``obsolete_target`` file and committing it (writing
+``commit`` to ``state`` file).  DAMON will remove the matching targets from its
+internal targets array.  Users are responsible to construct target directories
+again, so that those correctly represent the changed internal targets array.
+
+
 .. _sysfs_regions:
 
 targets/<N>/regions
-- 
2.47.3

  parent reply	other threads:[~2025-10-16 21:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-10-16 21:47 [RFC PATCH 0/5] mm/damon: support pin-point targets removal SeongJae Park
2025-10-16 21:47 ` [RFC PATCH 1/5] mm/damon/core: add damon_target->obsolete for pin-point removal SeongJae Park
2025-10-17 14:52   ` Bijan Tabatabai
2025-10-17 16:30     ` SeongJae Park
2025-10-16 21:47 ` [RFC PATCH 2/5] mm/damon/sysfs: test commit input against realistic destination SeongJae Park
2025-10-16 21:47 ` [RFC PATCH 3/5] mm/damon/sysfs: implement obsolete_target file SeongJae Park
2025-10-16 21:47 ` SeongJae Park [this message]
2025-10-16 21:47 ` [RFC PATCH 5/5] Docs/ABI/damon: document obsolete_target sysfs file SeongJae Park

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