Re: [PATCH 1/8] Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/start: fix grammar

From: Manuel Ebner

Date: Mon Oct 26 2026 - 08:43:08 EST


On Mon, 2026-10-26 at 22:14 +1100, Aveline Noir wrote:
> Fix a few grammar slips in the getting-started guide, like "make DAMON
> monitors" and a region "that has not accessed".
>
> "The line of the commands" used to be "The first two lines".  With only
> one masim line left, I make it "The first line".
>
> Signed-off-by: Aveline Noir <jm5905938@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/start.rst | 10 +++++-----
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/start.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/start.rst
> index d98b0eb8e771..a83fcc2265bd 100644
> --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/start.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/start.rst
> @@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ the execution. ::
>  
>  The first command of the above example downloads and builds an artificial
>  memory access generator program called ``masim``.  The second command asks DAMO
> -to start the program via the given command and make DAMON monitors the newly
> +to start the program via the given command and make DAMON monitor the newly

'The second command asks ... and makes ...' Thus:

+to start the program via the given command and makes DAMON monitor the newly

>  started process.  The third command retrieves the current snapshot of the
>  monitored access pattern of the process from DAMON and shows the pattern in a
>  human readable format.
> @@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ human readable format.
>  The first line of the output shows the relative access temperature (hotness) of
>  the regions in a single row heatmap format.  Each column on the heatmap
>  represents regions of same size on the monitored virtual address space.  The
> -position of the column on the row and the number on the column represents the
> +position of the column on the row and the number on the column represent the
>  relative location and access temperature of the region.  ``[...]`` means
>  unmapped huge regions on the virtual address spaces.  The second line shows
>  additional information for better understanding the heatmap.

I have read the damon directory aswell but I didn't find enought to send a patch yet.
But I found this, could you add it to your patch?

@@ -78,8 +78,8 @@ additional information for better understanding the heatmap.

Each line of the output from the third line shows which virtual address range
(``addr XX size XX``) of the process is how frequently (``access XX %``)
-accessed for how long time (``age XX``). For example, the eleventh region of
-~9.5 MiB size is being most frequently accessed for last 3.7 seconds. Finally,
+accessed for how long (``age XX``). For example, the eleventh region of
+~9.5 MiB size is being most frequently accessed for the last 3.7 seconds. Finally,
the fourth command stops DAMON.

Rest looks good to me:

Reviewed-by: Manuel Ebner <manuelebnerli@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks

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