From: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>,
"Liam R. Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>,
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>,
damon@lists.linux.dev, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: [PATCH 8/8] Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/stat: document negative idle time
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2025 11:22:13 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251026182216.118200-9-sj@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251026182216.118200-1-sj@kernel.org>
Commit a983a26d5298 ("mm/damon/stat: expose negative idle time")
introduced the negative idle time feature for DAMON_STAT. But it is not
documented. Document it on the usage document.
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
---
Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/stat.rst | 15 ++++++++-------
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/stat.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/stat.rst
index 754f98d47617..e5a5a2c4f803 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/stat.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/stat.rst
@@ -74,12 +74,13 @@ 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.
+now (idle time), based on the current DAMON results snapshot. For regions
+having access frequency (nr_accesses) larger than zero, how long the current
+access frequency level was kept multiplied by ``-1`` becomes the idlee time of
+every byte of the region. 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.
--
2.47.3
prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-10-26 18:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-10-26 18:22 [PATCH 0/8] mm/damon: misc documentation fixups SeongJae Park
2025-10-26 18:22 ` [PATCH 1/8] mm/damon/core: fix wrong comment of damon_call() return timing SeongJae Park
2025-10-26 18:22 ` [PATCH 2/8] Docs/mm/damon/design: fix wrong link to intervals goal section SeongJae Park
2025-10-26 18:22 ` [PATCH 3/8] Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/stat: fix a typo: s/sampling events/sampling interval/ SeongJae Park
2025-10-26 18:22 ` [PATCH 4/8] Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: document empty target regions commit behavior SeongJae Park
2025-10-26 18:22 ` [PATCH 5/8] Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/reclaim: document addr_unit parameter SeongJae Park
2025-10-26 18:22 ` [PATCH 6/8] Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/lru_sort: " SeongJae Park
2025-10-26 18:22 ` [PATCH 7/8] Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/stat: document aggr_interval_us parameter SeongJae Park
2025-10-26 18:22 ` SeongJae Park [this message]
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