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From: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	damon@lists.linux.dev, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 2/2] Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: document damos_before_apply tracepoint
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2023 18:35:59 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230912183559.4733-3-sj@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230912183559.4733-1-sj@kernel.org>

Document damos_before_apply tracepoint on the usage document.

Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
---
 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst | 37 ++++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst
index 282062b6f134..6272cd36590a 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst
@@ -496,15 +496,24 @@ the files as above.  Above is only for an example.
 
 .. _tracepoint:
 
-Tracepoint for Monitoring Results
-=================================
+Tracepoints for Monitoring Results
+==================================
 
 Users can get the monitoring results via the :ref:`tried_regions
-<sysfs_schemes_tried_regions>` or a tracepoint, ``damon:damon_aggregated``.
-While the tried regions directory is useful for getting a snapshot, the
-tracepoint is useful for getting a full record of the results.  While the
-monitoring is turned on, you could record the tracepoint events and show
-results using tracepoint supporting tools like ``perf``.  For example::
+<sysfs_schemes_tried_regions>`.  The interface is useful for getting a
+snapshot, but it could be inefficient for fully recording all the monitoring
+results.  For the purpose, two trace points, namely ``damon:damon_aggregated``
+and ``damon:damos_before_apply``, are provided.  ``damon:damon_aggregated``
+provides the whole monitoring results, while ``damon:damos_before_apply``
+provides the monitoring results for regions that each DAMON-based Operation
+Scheme (:ref:`DAMOS <damon_design_damos>`) is gonna be applied.  Hence,
+``damon:damos_before_apply`` is more useful for recording internal behavior of
+DAMOS, or DAMOS target access
+:ref:`pattern <damon_design_damos_access_pattern>` based query-like efficient
+monitoring results recording.
+
+While the monitoring is turned on, you could record the tracepoint events and
+show results using tracepoint supporting tools like ``perf``.  For example::
 
     # echo on > monitor_on
     # perf record -e damon:damon_aggregated &
@@ -527,6 +536,20 @@ counter).  Finally the tenth field (``X``) shows the ``age`` of the region
 (refer to :ref:`design <damon_design_age_tracking>` for more details of the
 counter).
 
+If the event was ``damon:damos_beofre_apply``, the ``perf script`` output would
+be somewhat like below::
+
+    kdamond.0 47293 [000] 80801.060214: damon:damos_before_apply: ctx_idx=0 scheme_idx=0 target_idx=0 nr_regions=11 121932607488-135128711168: 0 136
+    [...]
+
+Each line of the output represents each monitoring region that each DAMON-based
+Operation Scheme was about to be applied at the traced time.  The first five
+fields are as usual.  It shows the index of the DAMON context (``ctx_idx=X``)
+of the scheme in the list of the contexts of the context's kdamond, the index
+of the scheme (``scheme_idx=X``) in the list of the schemes of the context, in
+addition to the output of ``damon_aggregated`` tracepoint.
+
+
 .. _debugfs_interface:
 
 debugfs Interface (DEPRECATED!)
-- 
2.25.1



  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-09-12 18:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-09-12 18:35 SeongJae Park
2023-09-12 18:35 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] mm/damon/core: add a tracepoint for damos apply target regions SeongJae Park
2023-09-12 18:35 ` SeongJae Park [this message]
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