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 15/17] Docs/mm/damon/design: document probe preps
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2026 14:02:19 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260725210225.129944-16-sj@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260725210225.129944-1-sj@kernel.org>
Update DAMON design document for the newly added DAMN probe preps
feature.
Signed-off-by: SJ 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 12a2c3f81a262..5ce777c6b3f30 100644
--- a/Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst
+++ b/Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst
@@ -311,6 +311,13 @@ Users can therefore know how much of a given DAMON region has a specific data
attribute by reading the per-region per-probe probe hits counter after each
aggregation interval.
+Users can optionally register probing preparation actions per probe. If such
+actions are registered, DAMON applies the actions to each region's sampling
+memory before starting the next sampling interval. Currently only one action,
+``set_pgidle`` is supported. The action marks the page for the probing target
+memory as access-idle. This can be useful to be used together with
+``pgidle_unset`` probe filter.
+
This is a sampling based mechanism. Hence, it is lightweight but the output
may include some measurement errors. The output should be used with good
understanding of statistics.
--
2.47.3
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-25 21:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-25 21:02 [RFC PATCH 00/17] mm/damon: introduce data access-as-a-data attribute SJ Park
2026-07-25 21:02 ` [RFC PATCH 01/17] mm/damon/core: introduce DAMON_FILTER_TYPE_PGIDLE_UNSET SJ Park
2026-07-25 21:11 ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-25 21:28 ` SJ Park
2026-07-25 21:02 ` [RFC PATCH 02/17] mm/damon/paddr: support PGIDLE_UNSET probe filter type SJ Park
2026-07-25 21:17 ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-25 21:30 ` SJ Park
2026-07-25 21:02 ` [RFC PATCH 03/17] mm/damon/sysfs: support pgidle_unset " SJ Park
2026-07-25 21:02 ` [RFC PATCH 04/17] Docs/mm/damon/design: document " SJ Park
2026-07-25 21:05 ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-25 21:39 ` SJ Park
2026-07-25 21:02 ` [RFC PATCH 05/17] mm/damon/core: introduce damon_prep struct SJ Park
2026-07-25 21:02 ` [RFC PATCH 06/17] mm/damon/core: commit preps SJ Park
2026-07-25 21:02 ` [RFC PATCH 07/17] mm/damon/core: introduce damon_operations->prep_probes() SJ Park
2026-07-25 21:14 ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-25 21:52 ` SJ Park
2026-07-25 21:02 ` [RFC PATCH 08/17] mm/damon/paddr: support damon_prep SJ Park
2026-07-25 21:15 ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-25 21:54 ` SJ Park
2026-07-25 21:02 ` [RFC PATCH 09/17] mm/damon/sysfs: implement preps directory SJ Park
2026-07-25 21:13 ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-25 21:57 ` SJ Park
2026-07-25 21:02 ` [RFC PATCH 10/17] mm/damon/sysfs: create probe " SJ Park
2026-07-25 21:02 ` [RFC PATCH 11/17] mm/damon/sysfs: implement probe prep directory SJ Park
2026-07-25 21:10 ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-25 21:59 ` SJ Park
2026-07-25 21:02 ` [RFC PATCH 12/17] mm/damon/sysfs: create probe prep files for preps/nr file write SJ Park
2026-07-25 21:02 ` [RFC PATCH 13/17] mm/damon/sysfs: pass preps to DAMON core SJ Park
2026-07-25 21:02 ` [RFC PATCH 14/17] selftests/damon/sysfs.sh: test probe prep sysfs files SJ Park
2026-07-25 21:02 ` SJ Park [this message]
2026-07-25 21:06 ` [RFC PATCH 15/17] Docs/mm/damon/design: document probe preps sashiko-bot
2026-07-25 22:00 ` SJ Park
2026-07-25 21:02 ` [RFC PATCH 16/17] Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: document probe preps sysfs files SJ Park
2026-07-25 21:08 ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-25 22:06 ` SJ Park
2026-07-25 21:02 ` [RFC PATCH 17/17] Docs/ABI/damon: document probe prep " SJ Park
2026-07-25 21:12 ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-25 22:09 ` SJ Park
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