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diff --git a/include/linux/damon.h b/include/linux/damon.h
index e00ddf1ed39c..5881e4ac30be 100644
--- a/include/linux/damon.h
+++ b/include/linux/damon.h
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
/*
* DAMON api
*
- * Author: SeongJae Park <sjpark@amazon.de>
+ * Author: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
*/
#ifndef _DAMON_H_
@@ -136,6 +136,9 @@ enum damos_action {
* @weight_nr_accesses: Weight of the region's nr_accesses for prioritization.
* @weight_age: Weight of the region's age for prioritization.
*
+ * @get_score: Feedback function for self-tuning quota.
+ * @get_score_arg: Parameter for @get_score
+ *
* To avoid consuming too much CPU time or IO resources for applying the
* &struct damos->action to large memory, DAMON allows users to set time and/or
* size quotas. The quotas can be set by writing non-zero values to &ms and
@@ -153,6 +156,17 @@ enum damos_action {
* You could customize the prioritization logic by setting &weight_sz,
* &weight_nr_accesses, and &weight_age, because monitoring operations are
* encouraged to respect those.
+ *
+ * If @get_score function pointer is set, DAMON calls it back with
+ * @get_score_arg and get the return value of it for every @reset_interval.
+ * Then, DAMON adjusts the effective quota using the return value as a feedback
+ * score to the current quota, using its internal feedback loop algorithm.
+ *
+ * The feedback loop algorithem assumes the quota input and the feedback score
+ * output are in a positive proportional relationship, and the goal of the
+ * tuning is getting the feedback screo value of 10,000. If @ms and/or @sz are
+ * set together, those work as a hard limit quota. If neither @ms nor @sz are
+ * set, the mechanism starts from the quota of one byte.
*/
struct damos_quota {
unsigned long ms;
@@ -163,6 +177,9 @@ struct damos_quota {
unsigned int weight_nr_accesses;
unsigned int weight_age;
+ unsigned long (*get_score)(void *arg);
+ void *get_score_arg;
+
/* private: */
/* For throughput estimation */
unsigned long total_charged_sz;
@@ -179,6 +196,9 @@ struct damos_quota {
/* For prioritization */
unsigned long histogram[DAMOS_MAX_SCORE + 1];
unsigned int min_score;
+
+ /* For feedback loop */
+ unsigned long esz_bp;
};
/**