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Signed-off-by: Liew Rui Yan --- Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst b/Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst index 939298f2a9b9..1fcf0b8c044b 100644 --- a/Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst +++ b/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 `, refer to :ref:s`stats ` part of the -- 2.55.0