From: SJ Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: SJ Park <sj@kernel.org>, "Liam R. Howlett" <liam@infradead.org>,
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 15/16] Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: document weight sysfs file
Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2026 13:57:37 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260705205743.98656-16-sj@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260705205743.98656-1-sj@kernel.org>
Update DAMON usage document for newly added probe weight file.
Signed-off-by: SJ Park <sj@kernel.org>
---
Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst | 11 ++++++++---
Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst | 5 +++++
2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst
index b2649ea011f93..4515088eba968 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst
@@ -73,9 +73,10 @@ comma (",").
│ │ │ │ │ │ │ intervals_goal/access_bp,aggrs,min_sample_us,max_sample_us
│ │ │ │ │ │ nr_regions/min,max
│ │ │ │ │ │ :ref:`probes <damon_usage_sysfs_probes>`/nr_probes
- │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 0/filters/nr_filters
- │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 0/type,matching,allow,path
- │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ...
+ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 0/weight
+ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ filters/nr_filters
+ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 0/type,matching,allow,path
+ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ...
│ │ │ │ │ │ │ ...
│ │ │ │ │ :ref:`targets <sysfs_targets>`/nr_targets
│ │ │ │ │ │ :ref:`0 <sysfs_target>`/pid_target,obsolete_target
@@ -286,6 +287,10 @@ In each probe directory, one directory, ``filters`` exists. The directory
contains files for installing filters for the probe, that is used to determine
the data attribute for the probe.
+Each probe directory also contains ``weight`` file. Reading from and writing
+to the file gets and sets the :ref:`atttributes-only monitoring
+<damon_design_attrs_only_monitoring>` weight for the attribute of the probe.
+
In the beginning, ``filters`` directory has only one file, ``nr_filters``.
Writing a number (``N``) to the file creates the number of child directories
named ``0`` to ``N-1``. Each directory represents each filter and works in a
diff --git a/Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst b/Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst
index 67398e2133036..129acb1da4e19 100644
--- a/Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst
+++ b/Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst
@@ -316,6 +316,8 @@ Another way to do this for higher accuracy is using :ref:`DAMOS filter
information in page level. But, because it is operated in page level, the
overhead is proportional to the size of the memory.
+.. _damon_design_attrs_only_monitoring:
+
Data Attributes-only Monitoring
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
@@ -336,6 +338,9 @@ automatically turned off. The access counter (``nr_accesses``) will always be
zero and not updated. Hence the mode is called Data Attributes "only"
monitoring.
+Refer to the :ref:`admin guide <damon_usage_sysfs_probes>` to know how users
+can use the mode.
+
Dynamic Target Space Updates Handling
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
--
2.47.3
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-05 20:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-05 20:57 [RFC PATCH 00/16] mm/damon: introduce data attributes only monitoring SJ Park
2026-07-05 20:57 ` [RFC PATCH 01/16] mm/damon/core: introduce damon_probe->weight SJ Park
2026-07-05 21:04 ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-05 21:21 ` SJ Park
2026-07-05 20:57 ` [RFC PATCH 02/16] mm/damon/core: ask apply_probes() ops callback to set sampling address SJ Park
2026-07-05 21:07 ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-05 21:25 ` SJ Park
2026-07-05 20:57 ` [RFC PATCH 03/16] mm/damon/paddr: set samples in apply_probes() if requested SJ Park
2026-07-05 21:11 ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-05 21:28 ` SJ Park
2026-07-05 20:57 ` [RFC PATCH 04/16] mm/damon/core: ask apply_probe() to return max probe hits weighted sum SJ Park
2026-07-05 20:57 ` [RFC PATCH 05/16] mm/damon/core: implement damon_probe_hits_wsum() SJ Park
2026-07-05 21:13 ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-05 21:30 ` SJ Park
2026-07-05 20:57 ` [RFC PATCH 06/16] mm/damon/paddr: respect return_max_wsum SJ Park
2026-07-05 20:57 ` [RFC PATCH 07/16] mm/damon/core: extend merge function to work with probe hits SJ Park
2026-07-05 21:11 ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-05 21:38 ` SJ Park
2026-07-05 20:57 ` [RFC PATCH 08/16] mm/damon/core: disable access monitoring when probe weights are set SJ Park
2026-07-05 21:19 ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-05 20:57 ` [RFC PATCH 09/16] mm/damon/core: set samples in apply_probes() if " SJ Park
2026-07-05 20:57 ` [RFC PATCH 10/16] mm/damon/core: s/max_nr_accesses/max_merge_score/ in kdamond_fn() SJ Park
2026-07-05 20:57 ` [RFC PATCH 11/16] mm/damon/core: get merge threshold from probe hits when weights are set SJ Park
2026-07-05 21:12 ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-05 21:41 ` SJ Park
2026-07-05 20:57 ` [RFC PATCH 12/16] mm/damon/core: implement damon_has_probe_weight() SJ Park
2026-07-05 21:15 ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-05 21:45 ` SJ Park
2026-07-05 20:57 ` [RFC PATCH 13/16] mm/damon/sysfs: implement probe/weight file SJ Park
2026-07-05 20:57 ` [RFC PATCH 14/16] Docs/mm/damon/design: document attrs-only monitoring SJ Park
2026-07-05 21:05 ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-05 21:46 ` SJ Park
2026-07-05 20:57 ` SJ Park [this message]
2026-07-05 21:07 ` [RFC PATCH 15/16] Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: document weight sysfs file sashiko-bot
2026-07-05 21:48 ` SJ Park
2026-07-05 20:57 ` [RFC PATCH 16/16] Docs/ABI/damon: document probe weight file SJ Park
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