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From: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>,
	"Liam R. Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>,
	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 v4 03/10] Docs/mm/damon/design: update for context pause/resume feature
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2026 08:57:17 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260322155728.81434-4-sj@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260322155728.81434-1-sj@kernel.org>

Update DAMON design document for the context execution pause/resume
feature.

Signed-off-by: SeongJae 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 afc7d52bda2f7..510ec6375178d 100644
--- a/Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst
+++ b/Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst
@@ -19,6 +19,13 @@ types of monitoring.
 To know how user-space can do the configurations and start/stop DAMON, refer to
 :ref:`DAMON sysfs interface <sysfs_interface>` documentation.
 
+Users can also request each context execution to be paused and resumed.  When
+it is paused, the kdamond does nothing other than applying online parameter
+update.
+
+To know how user-space can pause/resume each context, refer to :ref:`DAMON
+sysfs context <sysfs_context>` usage documentation.
+
 
 Overall Architecture
 ====================
-- 
2.47.3


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-03-22 15:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-03-22 15:57 [RFC PATCH v4 00/10] mm/damon: let DAMON be paused and resumed SeongJae Park
2026-03-22 15:57 ` [RFC PATCH v4 01/10] mm/damon/core: introduce damon_ctx->paused SeongJae Park
2026-03-22 17:06   ` (sashiko review) " SeongJae Park
2026-03-22 17:40     ` SeongJae Park
2026-03-22 20:51       ` SeongJae Park
2026-03-22 15:57 ` [RFC PATCH v4 02/10] mm/damon/sysfs: add pause file under context dir SeongJae Park
2026-03-22 15:57 ` SeongJae Park [this message]
2026-03-22 15:57 ` [RFC PATCH v4 04/10] Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: update for pause file SeongJae Park
2026-03-22 15:57 ` [RFC PATCH v4 05/10] Docs/ABI/damon: update for pause sysfs file SeongJae Park
2026-03-22 15:57 ` [RFC PATCH v4 06/10] mm/damon/tests/core-kunit: test pause commitment SeongJae Park
2026-03-22 15:57 ` [RFC PATCH v4 07/10] selftests/damon/_damon_sysfs: support pause file staging SeongJae Park
2026-03-22 15:57 ` [RFC PATCH v4 08/10] selftests/damon/drgn_dump_damon_status: dump pause SeongJae Park
2026-03-22 15:57 ` [RFC PATCH v4 09/10] selftests/damon/sysfs.py: check pause on assert_ctx_committed() SeongJae Park
2026-03-22 15:57 ` [RFC PATCH v4 10/10] selftets/damon/sysfs.py: pause DAMON before dumping status SeongJae Park
2026-03-22 17:15   ` (sashiko review) " SeongJae Park
2026-03-22 17:47     ` SeongJae Park
2026-03-22 17:05 ` (sashiko status) [RFC PATCH v4 00/10] mm/damon: let DAMON be paused and resumed SeongJae Park
2026-03-22 17:11   ` SeongJae Park

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