[PATCH 08/10] Docs/mm/damon/design: document DAMOS regions walking
From: SeongJae Park
Date: Fri Jan 03 2025 - 12:45:44 EST
DAMOS' regions walking is a feature for efficiently retrieving
monitoring results or DAMOS-internal behavior. It can be useful for
multiple purposes including investigations and tuning. Add a section
for it on the design document.
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst | 11 +++++++++++
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst b/Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst
index 1c8a43b07b00..5385ea04c2fd 100644
--- a/Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst
+++ b/Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst
@@ -540,6 +540,17 @@ To know how user-space can set the watermarks via :ref:`DAMON sysfs interface
documentation.
+Regions Walking
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+DAMOS feature allowing users access each region that a DAMOS action has just
+applied. Using this feature, DAMON :ref:`API <damon_design_api>` allows users
+access full properties of the regions including the access monitoring results.
+:ref:`DAMON sysfs interface <sysfs_interface>` also allows users read the data
+via special :ref:`files <sysfs_schemes_tried_regions>`.
+
+.. _damon_design_api:
+
Application Programming Interface
---------------------------------
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2.39.5