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@kernel.org>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>,
Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>,
damon@lists.linux.dev, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: [RFC PATCH v2 03/10] Docs/mm/damon/design: update for context pause/resume feature
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2026 22:21:46 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260319052157.99433-4-sj@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260319052157.99433-1-sj@kernel.org>
Update DAMON design document for the context execution pause/resume
feature.
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
---
Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst b/Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst
index 838b14d225193..e2e4fe3fb3986 100644
--- a/Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst
+++ b/Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst
@@ -19,6 +19,13 @@ types of monitoring.
To know how user-space can do the configurations and start/stop DAMON, refer to
:ref:`DAMON sysfs interface <sysfs_interface>` documentation.
+Users can also request each context execution to be paused and resumed. When
+it is paused, the kdamond does nothing but only online parameters updates
+including resume request handling.
+
+To know how user-space can pause/resume each context, refer to :ref:`DAMON
+sysfs context <sysfs_context>` usage documentation.
+
Overall Architecture
====================
--
2.47.3
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-19 5:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-19 5:21 [RFC PATCH v2 00/10] mm/damon: let DAMON be paused and resumed SeongJae Park
2026-03-19 5:21 ` [RFC PATCH v2 01/10] mm/damon/core: introduce damon_ctx->paused SeongJae Park
2026-03-19 6:29 ` SeongJae Park
2026-03-20 15:11 ` SeongJae Park
2026-03-19 5:21 ` [RFC PATCH v2 02/10] mm/damon/sysfs: add pause file under context dir SeongJae Park
2026-03-19 5:21 ` SeongJae Park [this message]
2026-03-20 15:17 ` [RFC PATCH v2 03/10] Docs/mm/damon/design: update for context pause/resume feature SeongJae Park
2026-03-19 5:21 ` [RFC PATCH v2 04/10] Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: update for pause file SeongJae Park
2026-03-19 5:21 ` [RFC PATCH v2 05/10] Docs/ABI/damon: update for pause sysfs file SeongJae Park
2026-03-19 5:21 ` [RFC PATCH v2 06/10] mm/damon/tests/core-kunit: test pause commitment SeongJae Park
2026-03-19 5:21 ` [RFC PATCH v2 07/10] selftests/damon/_damon_sysfs: support pause file staging SeongJae Park
2026-03-20 15:22 ` SeongJae Park
2026-03-19 5:21 ` [RFC PATCH v2 08/10] selftests/damon/drgn_dump_damon_status: dump pause SeongJae Park
2026-03-19 5:21 ` [RFC PATCH v2 09/10] selftests/damon/sysfs.py: check pause on assert_ctx_committed() SeongJae Park
2026-03-19 5:21 ` [RFC PATCH v2 10/10] selftets/damon/sysfs.py: pause DAMON before dumping status SeongJae Park
2026-03-20 15:29 ` SeongJae Park
2026-03-20 15:41 ` SeongJae Park
2026-03-21 1:02 ` SeongJae Park
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