+ docs-mm-damon-design-update-for-max_nr_snapshots.patch added to mm-new branch

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

The patch titled
     Subject: Docs/mm/damon/design: update for max_nr_snapshots
has been added to the -mm mm-new branch.  Its filename is
     docs-mm-damon-design-update-for-max_nr_snapshots.patch

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     https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/docs-mm-damon-design-update-for-max_nr_snapshots.patch

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From: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Subject: Docs/mm/damon/design: update for max_nr_snapshots
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2025 00:01:22 -0800

Update DAMON design document for the newly added snapshot level DAMOS
deactivation feature, max_nr_snapshots.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251216080128.42991-10-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst |    5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

--- a/Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst~docs-mm-damon-design-update-for-max_nr_snapshots
+++ a/Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst
@@ -720,6 +720,7 @@ scheme's execution.
 - ``qt_exceeds``: Total number of times the quota of the scheme has exceeded.
 - ``nr_snapshots``: Total number of DAMON snapshots that the scheme is tried to
   be applied.
+- ``max_nr_snapshots``: Upper limit of ``nr_snapshots``.
 
 "A scheme is tried to be applied to a region" means DAMOS core logic determined
 the region is eligible to apply the scheme's :ref:`action
@@ -741,6 +742,10 @@ to exclude anonymous pages and the regio
 action is ``pageout`` while all pages of the region are unreclaimable, applying
 the action to the region will fail.
 
+Unlike normal stats, ``max_nr_snapshots`` is set by users.  If it is set as
+non-zero and ``nr_snapshots`` be same to or greater than ``nr_snapshots``, the
+scheme is deactivated.
+
 To know how user-space can read the stats via :ref:`DAMON sysfs interface
 <sysfs_interface>`, refer to :ref:s`stats <sysfs_stats>` part of the
 documentation.
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from sj@kernel.org are

mm-damon-core-introduce-nr_snapshots-damos-stat.patch
mm-damon-sysfs-schemes-introduce-nr_snapshots-damos-stat-file.patch
docs-mm-damon-design-update-for-nr_snapshots-damos-stat.patch
docs-admin-guide-mm-damon-usage-update-for-nr_snapshots-damos-stat.patch
docs-abi-damon-update-for-nr_snapshots-damos-stat.patch
mm-damon-update-damos-kerneldoc-for-stat-field.patch
mm-damon-core-implement-max_nr_snapshots.patch
mm-damon-sysfs-schemes-implement-max_nr_snapshots-file.patch
docs-mm-damon-design-update-for-max_nr_snapshots.patch
docs-admin-guide-mm-damon-usage-update-for-max_nr_snapshots.patch
docs-abi-damon-update-for-max_nr_snapshots.patch
mm-damon-core-add-trace-point-for-damos-stat-per-apply-interval.patch