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| author | SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> | 2025-08-28 10:12:39 -0700 |
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| committer | Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> | 2025-09-13 16:55:23 -0700 |
| commit | 7b06c471afc8d82c9c246532b74c4ad4db2890d2 (patch) | |
| tree | 1f7f58b2241775b535a0ebbf9d1aaa331cd95ade | |
| parent | 540a2aebc657b02520a8837778dace8608ec4f05 (diff) | |
Docs/mm/damon/design: document 'address unit' parameter
Add 'addr_unit' parameter description on DAMON design document.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250828171242.59810-9-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Quanmin Yan <yanquanmin1@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: ze zuo <zuoze1@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst | 14 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst b/Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst index 2f6ba5c7f4c7..d9d5baa1ec87 100644 --- a/Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst +++ b/Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst @@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ processes, NUMA nodes, files, and backing memory devices would be supportable. Also, if some architectures or devices support special optimized access check features, those will be easily configurable. -DAMON currently provides below three operation sets. Below two subsections +DAMON currently provides below three operation sets. Below three subsections describe how those work. - vaddr: Monitor virtual address spaces of specific processes @@ -135,6 +135,18 @@ the interference is the responsibility of sysadmins. However, it solves the conflict with the reclaim logic using ``PG_idle`` and ``PG_young`` page flags, as Idle page tracking does. +Address Unit +------------ + +DAMON core layer uses ``unsinged long`` type for monitoring target address +ranges. In some cases, the address space for a given operations set could be +too large to be handled with the type. ARM (32-bit) with large physical +address extension is an example. For such cases, a per-operations set +parameter called ``address unit`` is provided. It represents the scale factor +that need to be multiplied to the core layer's address for calculating real +address on the given address space. Support of ``address unit`` parameter is +up to each operations set implementation. ``paddr`` is the only operations set +implementation that supports the parameter. .. _damon_core_logic: |