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From: SJ Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: SJ Park <sj@kernel.org>, "Liam R. Howlett" <liam@infradead.org>,
	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 15/16] Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: document weight sysfs file
Date: Sun,  5 Jul 2026 13:57:37 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260705205743.98656-16-sj@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260705205743.98656-1-sj@kernel.org>

Update DAMON usage document for newly added probe weight file.

Signed-off-by: SJ Park <sj@kernel.org>
---
 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst | 11 ++++++++---
 Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst            |  5 +++++
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst
index b2649ea011f93..4515088eba968 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst
@@ -73,9 +73,10 @@ comma (",").
     │ │ │ │ │ │ │ intervals_goal/access_bp,aggrs,min_sample_us,max_sample_us
     │ │ │ │ │ │ nr_regions/min,max
     │ │ │ │ │ │ :ref:`probes <damon_usage_sysfs_probes>`/nr_probes
-    │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 0/filters/nr_filters
-    │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 0/type,matching,allow,path
-    │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ...
+    │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 0/weight
+    │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ filters/nr_filters
+    │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 0/type,matching,allow,path
+    │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ...
     │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ...
     │ │ │ │ │ :ref:`targets <sysfs_targets>`/nr_targets
     │ │ │ │ │ │ :ref:`0 <sysfs_target>`/pid_target,obsolete_target
@@ -286,6 +287,10 @@ In each probe directory, one directory, ``filters`` exists.  The directory
 contains files for installing filters for the probe, that is used to determine
 the data attribute for the probe.
 
+Each probe directory also contains ``weight`` file.  Reading from and writing
+to the file gets and sets the :ref:`atttributes-only monitoring
+<damon_design_attrs_only_monitoring>` weight for the attribute of the probe.
+
 In the beginning, ``filters`` directory has only one file, ``nr_filters``.
 Writing a number (``N``) to the file creates the number of child directories
 named ``0`` to ``N-1``.  Each directory represents each filter and works in a
diff --git a/Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst b/Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst
index 67398e2133036..129acb1da4e19 100644
--- a/Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst
+++ b/Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst
@@ -316,6 +316,8 @@ Another way to do this for higher accuracy is using :ref:`DAMOS filter
 information in page level.  But, because it is operated in page level, the
 overhead is proportional to the size of the memory.
 
+.. _damon_design_attrs_only_monitoring:
+
 Data Attributes-only Monitoring
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
@@ -336,6 +338,9 @@ automatically turned off.  The access counter (``nr_accesses``) will always be
 zero and not updated.  Hence the mode is called Data Attributes "only"
 monitoring.
 
+Refer to the :ref:`admin guide <damon_usage_sysfs_probes>` to know how users
+can use the mode.
+
 Dynamic Target Space Updates Handling
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
-- 
2.47.3

  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-07-05 20:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-07-05 20:57 [RFC PATCH 00/16] mm/damon: introduce data attributes only monitoring SJ Park
2026-07-05 20:57 ` [RFC PATCH 01/16] mm/damon/core: introduce damon_probe->weight SJ Park
2026-07-05 20:57 ` [RFC PATCH 02/16] mm/damon/core: ask apply_probes() ops callback to set sampling address SJ Park
2026-07-05 20:57 ` [RFC PATCH 03/16] mm/damon/paddr: set samples in apply_probes() if requested SJ Park
2026-07-05 20:57 ` [RFC PATCH 04/16] mm/damon/core: ask apply_probe() to return max probe hits weighted sum SJ Park
2026-07-05 20:57 ` [RFC PATCH 05/16] mm/damon/core: implement damon_probe_hits_wsum() SJ Park
2026-07-05 20:57 ` [RFC PATCH 06/16] mm/damon/paddr: respect return_max_wsum SJ Park
2026-07-05 20:57 ` [RFC PATCH 07/16] mm/damon/core: extend merge function to work with probe hits SJ Park
2026-07-05 20:57 ` [RFC PATCH 08/16] mm/damon/core: disable access monitoring when probe weights are set SJ Park
2026-07-05 20:57 ` [RFC PATCH 09/16] mm/damon/core: set samples in apply_probes() if " SJ Park
2026-07-05 20:57 ` [RFC PATCH 10/16] mm/damon/core: s/max_nr_accesses/max_merge_score/ in kdamond_fn() SJ Park
2026-07-05 20:57 ` [RFC PATCH 11/16] mm/damon/core: get merge threshold from probe hits when weights are set SJ Park
2026-07-05 20:57 ` [RFC PATCH 12/16] mm/damon/core: implement damon_has_probe_weight() SJ Park
2026-07-05 20:57 ` [RFC PATCH 13/16] mm/damon/sysfs: implement probe/weight file SJ Park
2026-07-05 20:57 ` [RFC PATCH 14/16] Docs/mm/damon/design: document attrs-only monitoring SJ Park
2026-07-05 20:57 ` SJ Park [this message]
2026-07-05 20:57 ` [RFC PATCH 16/16] Docs/ABI/damon: document probe weight file SJ Park

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