[RFC PATCH v2 9/9] Docs/mm/damon/design: update for changed filter-default behavior

SeongJae Park
2025-02-27T01:58:11Z

Update the design documentation for changed DAMOS filters default
allowance behaviors.

Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
---
Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst | 10 +++-------
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst b/Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst
index 5af991551a86..ffea744e4889 100644
--- a/Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst
+++ b/Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst
@@ -581,9 +581,10 @@ When multiple filters are installed, the group of filters that handled by the
core layer are evaluated first. After that, the group of filters that handled
by the operations layer are evaluated. Filters in each of the groups are
evaluated in the installed order. If a part of memory is matched to one of the
-filter, next filters are ignored. If the memory passes through the filters
+filter, next filters are ignored. If the part passes through the filters
evaluation stage because it is not matched to any of the filters, applying the
-scheme's action to it is allowed, same to the behavior when no filter exists.
+scheme's action to it depends on the last filter's allowance type. If the last
+filter was for allowing, the part of memory will be rejected, and vice versa.

For example, let's assume 1) a filter for allowing anonymous pages and 2)
another filter for rejecting young pages are installed in the order. If a page
@@ -595,11 +596,6 @@ second reject-filter blocks it. If the page is neither anonymous nor young,
the page will pass through the filters evaluation stage since there is no
matching filter, and the action will be applied to the page.

-Note that the action can equally be applied to memory that either explicitly
-filter-allowed or filters evaluation stage passed. It means that installing
-allow-filters at the end of the list makes no practical change but only
-filters-checking overhead.
-
Below ``type`` of filters are currently supported.

- Core layer handled
--
2.39.5