Re: [PATCH v4 41/41] arm64: mpam: Add initial MPAM documentation

Jonathan Cameron
2026-02-05T17:06:04Z

On Tue, 3 Feb 2026 21:43:42 +0000
Ben Horgan <ben.horgan@arm.com> wrote:

> MPAM (Memory Partitioning and Monitoring) is now exposed to user-space via
> resctrl. Add some documentation so the user knows what features to expect.
>
> Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Horgan <ben.horgan@arm.com>
> ---
> Changes by Ben:
> Some tidying, update for current heuristics
> ---
> Documentation/arch/arm64/index.rst | 1 +
> Documentation/arch/arm64/mpam.rst | 93 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 2 files changed, 94 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 Documentation/arch/arm64/mpam.rst
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/arch/arm64/index.rst b/Documentation/arch/arm64/index.rst
> index 6a012c98bdcd..189fa760dade 100644
> --- a/Documentation/arch/arm64/index.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/arch/arm64/index.rst
> @@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ ARM64 Architecture
> memory
> memory-tagging-extension
> mops
> + mpam
> perf
> pointer-authentication
> ptdump
> diff --git a/Documentation/arch/arm64/mpam.rst b/Documentation/arch/arm64/mpam.rst
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..0769bccff25e
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/arch/arm64/mpam.rst
> @@ -0,0 +1,93 @@
> +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> +
> +====
> +MPAM
> +====
> +
> +What is MPAM
> +============

> + MPAM (Memory Partitioning and Monitoring) is a feature in the CPUs and memory

I've not seen this style of indenting much in rst. I checked a few
files in this directory and it's not used in the ones I randomly picked.
+ it's not what the kernel-documentation.rst file suggests is standard
formatting.

Other than that the content looks fine to me.

Jonathan