[PATCH 05/11] Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: explain the format of damon_aggregate tracepoint

From: SeongJae Park
Date: Wed Sep 06 2023 - 22:29:51 EST


The example of the section for damon_aggregated tracepoint is not
explaining how the output looks like, and how it can be interpreted.
Add it.

Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst | 14 ++++++++++++++
Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst | 4 ++++
2 files changed, 18 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst
index e48101c777e1..758575d33ab6 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst
@@ -513,6 +513,20 @@ results using tracepoint supporting tools like ``perf``. For example::
# kill 9 $(pidof perf)
# echo off > monitor_on
# perf script
+ kdamond.0 46568 [027] 79357.842179: damon:damon_aggregated: target_id=0 nr_regions=11 122509119488-135708762112: 0 864
+ [...]
+
+Each line of the perf script output represents each monitoring region. The
+first five fields are as usual other tracepoint outputs. The sixth field
+(``target_id=X``) shows the ide of the monitoring target of the region. The
+seventh field (``nr_regions=X``) shows the total number of monitoring regions
+for the target. The eighth field (``X-Y:``) shows the start (``X``) and end
+(``Y``) addresses of the region in bytes. The ninth field (``X``) shows the
+``nr_accesses`` of the region (refer to
+:ref:`design <damon_design_region_based_sampling>` for more details of the
+counter). Finally the tenth field (``X``) shows the ``age`` of the region
+(refer to :ref:`design <damon_design_age_tracking>` for more details of the
+counter).

.. _debugfs_interface:

diff --git a/Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst b/Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst
index 5c465835a44f..51aab9b0621a 100644
--- a/Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst
+++ b/Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst
@@ -154,6 +154,8 @@ The monitoring overhead of this mechanism will arbitrarily increase as the
size of the target workload grows.


+.. _damon_design_region_based_sampling:
+
Region Based Sampling
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

@@ -191,6 +193,8 @@ In this way, DAMON provides its best-effort quality and minimal overhead while
keeping the bounds users set for their trade-off.


+.. _damon_design_age_tracking:
+
Age Tracking
~~~~~~~~~~~~

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