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authorSeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>2025-01-03 09:43:58 -0800
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2025-01-25 20:22:26 -0800
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Docs/mm/damon/design: document DAMOS regions walking
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. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250103174400.54890-9-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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@@ -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
---------------------------------