Commit 9a47c411 authored by SeongJae Park's avatar SeongJae Park Committed by Andrew Morton

Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: update DAMOS actions/filters supports of each DAMON operations set

Supports of each DAMOS action and filters are up to DAMON operations set
implementation, but it's not mentioned in detail on the documentation. 
Update the information on the usage document.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230110190400.119388-5-sj@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: default avatarSeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
parent 86834644
......@@ -279,14 +279,25 @@ The ``action`` file is for setting and getting what action you want to apply to
memory regions having specific access pattern of the interest. The keywords
that can be written to and read from the file and their meaning are as below.
- ``willneed``: Call ``madvise()`` for the region with ``MADV_WILLNEED``
- ``cold``: Call ``madvise()`` for the region with ``MADV_COLD``
- ``pageout``: Call ``madvise()`` for the region with ``MADV_PAGEOUT``
- ``hugepage``: Call ``madvise()`` for the region with ``MADV_HUGEPAGE``
- ``nohugepage``: Call ``madvise()`` for the region with ``MADV_NOHUGEPAGE``
Note that support of each action depends on the running DAMON operations set
`implementation <sysfs_contexts>`.
- ``willneed``: Call ``madvise()`` for the region with ``MADV_WILLNEED``.
Supported by ``vaddr`` and ``fvaddr`` operations set.
- ``cold``: Call ``madvise()`` for the region with ``MADV_COLD``.
Supported by ``vaddr`` and ``fvaddr`` operations set.
- ``pageout``: Call ``madvise()`` for the region with ``MADV_PAGEOUT``.
Supported by ``vaddr``, ``fvaddr`` and ``paddr`` operations set.
- ``hugepage``: Call ``madvise()`` for the region with ``MADV_HUGEPAGE``.
Supported by ``vaddr`` and ``fvaddr`` operations set.
- ``nohugepage``: Call ``madvise()`` for the region with ``MADV_NOHUGEPAGE``.
Supported by ``vaddr`` and ``fvaddr`` operations set.
- ``lru_prio``: Prioritize the region on its LRU lists.
Supported by ``paddr`` operations set.
- ``lru_deprio``: Deprioritize the region on its LRU lists.
- ``stat``: Do nothing but count the statistics
Supported by ``paddr`` operations set.
- ``stat``: Do nothing but count the statistics.
Supported by all operations sets.
schemes/<N>/access_pattern/
---------------------------
......@@ -388,8 +399,8 @@ pages of all memory cgroups except ``/having_care_already``.::
echo /having_care_already > 1/memcg_path
echo N > 1/matching
Note that filters could be ignored depend on the running DAMON operations set
`implementation <sysfs_contexts>`.
Note that filters are currently supported only when ``paddr``
`implementation <sysfs_contexts>` is being used.
.. _sysfs_schemes_stats:
......@@ -618,11 +629,15 @@ The ``<action>`` is a predefined integer for memory management actions, which
DAMON will apply to the regions having the target access pattern. The
supported numbers and their meanings are as below.
- 0: Call ``madvise()`` for the region with ``MADV_WILLNEED``
- 1: Call ``madvise()`` for the region with ``MADV_COLD``
- 2: Call ``madvise()`` for the region with ``MADV_PAGEOUT``
- 3: Call ``madvise()`` for the region with ``MADV_HUGEPAGE``
- 4: Call ``madvise()`` for the region with ``MADV_NOHUGEPAGE``
- 0: Call ``madvise()`` for the region with ``MADV_WILLNEED``. Ignored if
``target`` is ``paddr``.
- 1: Call ``madvise()`` for the region with ``MADV_COLD``. Ignored if
``target`` is ``paddr``.
- 2: Call ``madvise()`` for the region with ``MADV_PAGEOUT``.
- 3: Call ``madvise()`` for the region with ``MADV_HUGEPAGE``. Ignored if
``target`` is ``paddr``.
- 4: Call ``madvise()`` for the region with ``MADV_NOHUGEPAGE``. Ignored if
``target`` is ``paddr``.
- 5: Do nothing but count the statistics
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