[merged mm-stable] docs-mm-damon-design-difference-between-watermarks-and-nr_snapshots.patch removed from -mm tree

[merged mm-stable] docs-mm-damon-design-difference-between-watermarks-and-nr_snapshots.patch removed from -mm tree

[Andrew Morton]

The quilt patch titled
     Subject: docs/mm/damon/design: difference between watermarks and nr_snapshots
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     docs-mm-damon-design-difference-between-watermarks-and-nr_snapshots.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-stable branch
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: Liew Rui Yan <aethernet65535@gmail.com>
Subject: docs/mm/damon/design: difference between watermarks and nr_snapshots
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2026 08:02:25 -0700

Explain the difference between nr_snapshots reaches max_nr_snapshots and
watermarks.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260831150227.83416-3-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Liew Rui Yan <aethernet65535@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: SJ Park <sj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: SJ Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>
---

 Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst |    3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst~docs-mm-damon-design-difference-between-watermarks-and-nr_snapshots
+++ a/Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst
@@ -872,7 +872,8 @@ 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.
+scheme is deactivated.  Note that, unlike watermarks, even if a scheme's
+``nr_snapshots`` reaches ``max_nr_snapshots``, monitoring will not stop.
 
 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
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from aethernet65535@gmail.com are

docs-mm-damon-design-clarify-when-qt_exceeds-increases.patch
docs-mm-damon-design-fix-typos-in-temporal-auto-tuning-algorithm-section.patch
mm-damon-core-skip-quota-score-setup-when-the-quota-is-full.patch