From: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>, Ze Zuo <zuoze1@huawei.com>,
damon@lists.linux.dev, kernel-team@meta.com,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: [RFC PATCH 08/10] Docs/mm/damon/design: document 'address unit' parameter
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2025 21:25:49 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250416042551.158131-9-sj@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250416042551.158131-1-sj@kernel.org>
Add 'addr_unit' parameter description on DAMON design document.
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
---
Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst | 14 +++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst b/Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst
index aa01d0232adc..696a4d738cb3 100644
--- a/Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst
+++ b/Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ processes, NUMA nodes, files, and backing memory devices would be supportable.
Also, if some architectures or devices support special optimized access check
features, those will be easily configurable.
-DAMON currently provides below three operation sets. Below two subsections
+DAMON currently provides below three operation sets. Below three subsections
describe how those work.
- vaddr: Monitor virtual address spaces of specific processes
@@ -137,6 +137,18 @@ the interference is the responsibility of sysadmins. However, it solves the
conflict with the reclaim logic using ``PG_idle`` and ``PG_young`` page flags,
as Idle page tracking does.
+Address Unit
+------------
+
+DAMON core layer uses ``unsinged long`` type for monitoring target address
+ranges. In some cases, the address space for a given operations set could be
+too large to be handled with the type. ARM (32-bit) with large physical
+address extension is an example. For such cases, a per-operations set
+parameter called ``address unit`` is provided. It represents the scale factor
+that need to be multiplied to the core layer's address for calculating real
+address on the given address space. Support of ``address unit`` parameter is
+up to each operations set implementation. ``paddr`` is the only operations set
+implementation that supports the parameter.
.. _damon_core_logic:
--
2.39.5
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-04-16 4:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-04-16 4:25 [RFC PATCH 00/10] mm/damon: support address space larger than damon-core address space SeongJae Park
2025-04-16 4:25 ` SeongJae Park [this message]
2025-04-16 4:25 ` [RFC PATCH 09/10] Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: document addr_unit file SeongJae Park
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