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-doc@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 10/10] Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: document DAMOS filter 'allow' sysfs file
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2025 09:51:26 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250109175126.57878-11-sj@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250109175126.57878-1-sj@kernel.org>
Update DAMON usage document for the newly added 'allow' sysfs file for
DAMOS filters.
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
---
Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst | 33 +++++++++++---------
1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst
index 8df3357dcfa3..f0d0c20711d6 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ comma (",").
│ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 0/target_metric,target_value,current_value
│ │ │ │ │ │ │ :ref:`watermarks <sysfs_watermarks>`/metric,interval_us,high,mid,low
│ │ │ │ │ │ │ :ref:`filters <sysfs_filters>`/nr_filters
- │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 0/type,matching,memcg_id
+ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 0/type,matching,memcg_id,allow
│ │ │ │ │ │ │ :ref:`stats <sysfs_schemes_stats>`/nr_tried,sz_tried,nr_applied,sz_applied,sz_ops_filter_passed,qt_exceeds
│ │ │ │ │ │ │ :ref:`tried_regions <sysfs_schemes_tried_regions>`/total_bytes
│ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 0/start,end,nr_accesses,age,sz_filter_passed
@@ -406,13 +406,14 @@ number (``N``) to the file creates the number of child directories named ``0``
to ``N-1``. Each directory represents each filter. The filters are evaluated
in the numeric order.
-Each filter directory contains six files, namely ``type``, ``matcing``,
-``memcg_path``, ``addr_start``, ``addr_end``, and ``target_idx``. To ``type``
-file, you can write one of five special keywords: ``anon`` for anonymous pages,
-``memcg`` for specific memory cgroup, ``young`` for young pages, ``addr`` for
-specific address range (an open-ended interval), or ``target`` for specific
-DAMON monitoring target filtering. Meaning of the types are same to the
-description on the :ref:`design doc <damon_design_damos_filters>`.
+Each filter directory contains seven files, namely ``type``, ``matching``,
+``allow``, ``memcg_path``, ``addr_start``, ``addr_end``, and ``target_idx``.
+To ``type`` file, you can write one of five special keywords: ``anon`` for
+anonymous pages, ``memcg`` for specific memory cgroup, ``young`` for young
+pages, ``addr`` for specific address range (an open-ended interval), or
+``target`` for specific DAMON monitoring target filtering. Meaning of the
+types are same to the description on the :ref:`design doc
+<damon_design_damos_filters>`.
In case of the memory cgroup filtering, you can specify the memory cgroup of
the interest by writing the path of the memory cgroup from the cgroups mount
@@ -422,25 +423,29 @@ specify the start and end address of the range to ``addr_start`` and
you can specify the index of the target between the list of the DAMON context's
monitoring targets list to ``target_idx`` file.
-You can write ``Y`` or ``N`` to ``matching`` file to filter out pages that does
-or does not match to the type, respectively. Then, the scheme's action will
-not be applied to the pages that specified to be filtered out.
+You can write ``Y`` or ``N`` to ``matching`` file to specify whether the filter
+is for memory that matches the ``type``. You can write ``Y`` or ``N`` to
+``allow`` file to specify if applying the action to the memory that satisfies
+the ``type`` and ``matching`` should be allowed or not.
For example, below restricts a DAMOS action to be applied to only non-anonymous
pages of all memory cgroups except ``/having_care_already``.::
# echo 2 > nr_filters
- # # filter out anonymous pages
+ # # disallow anonymous pages
echo anon > 0/type
echo Y > 0/matching
+ echo N > 0/allow
# # further filter out all cgroups except one at '/having_care_already'
echo memcg > 1/type
echo /having_care_already > 1/memcg_path
echo Y > 1/matching
+ echo N > 1/allow
Refer to the :ref:`DAMOS filters design documentation
-<damon_design_damos_filters>` for more details including when each of the
-filters are supported and differences on stats.
+<damon_design_damos_filters>` for more details including how multiple filters
+of different ``allow`` works, when each of the filters are supported, and
+differences on stats.
.. _sysfs_schemes_stats:
--
2.39.5
prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-01-09 17:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-01-09 17:51 [PATCH v2 00/10] mm/damon: extend DAMOS filters for inclusion SeongJae Park
2025-01-09 17:51 ` [PATCH v2 01/10] mm/damon: fixup damos_filter kernel-doc SeongJae Park
2025-01-09 17:51 ` [PATCH v2 02/10] mm/damon/core: add damos_filter->allow field SeongJae Park
2025-01-09 17:51 ` [PATCH v2 03/10] mm/damon/core: support damos_filter->allow SeongJae Park
2025-01-09 17:51 ` [PATCH v2 04/10] mm/damon/paddr: " SeongJae Park
2025-01-09 17:51 ` [PATCH v2 05/10] mm/damon: add 'allow' argument to damos_new_filter() SeongJae Park
2025-01-09 17:51 ` [PATCH v2 06/10] mm/damon/sysfs-schemes: add a file for setting damos_filter->allow SeongJae Park
2025-01-09 17:51 ` [PATCH v2 07/10] Docs/mm/damon/design: document allow/reject DAMOS filter behaviors SeongJae Park
2025-01-09 17:51 ` [PATCH v2 08/10] Docs/ABI/damon: document DAMOS filter allow sysfs file SeongJae Park
2025-01-09 17:51 ` [PATCH v2 09/10] Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: omit DAMOS filter details in favor of design doc SeongJae Park
2025-01-09 17:51 ` SeongJae Park [this message]
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