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b=lcEvXsaLHt3TmFr4J5lbIuCMYMZGL/LLChfMR1D3LZBmHo6+F0qwmQKuZHCaOxUIc tlO7+0ndA4S1CfzgOMgGwQEtAFY+Nn38fmaz+wB2r9X3aafMYSOzLaxm1kwYdGcg5c zYb3dRtsGCYuMHLvoO2LtsgRWtJgmVzap53/34FnNFFkMgVh/sVYEm1iQKNdCF1SXA 0qOJS9yfRMqNurbPK+otCZb07tha0/PaDyEr6guDQWOqXrqGUrZi7qtM/ns6zZ9ZEh IB+lFH0Ma1OqQpY9dgcOhg+zyr942a5NLxwZohtGhW1Ss2yclfeznG1K5TO3wi1JAL 2mNr134bL+YFA== From: SeongJae Park To: Cc: SeongJae Park , Andrew Morton , Jonathan Corbet , damon@lists.linux.dev, kernel-team@meta.com, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org Subject: [RFC PATCH 0/4] mm/damon/sysfs: support periodic and automated stats update Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2025 13:46:45 -0700 Message-Id: <20250712204650.155988-1-sj@kernel.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.39.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 81A1BA0008 X-Rspam-User: X-Rspamd-Server: rspam09 X-Stat-Signature: qcxxe5hr91b9au9i4j1yitbccuquajiw X-HE-Tag: 1752353215-884952 X-HE-Meta: U2FsdGVkX19B3jZd3CeLB7MJ4/sGpONvTjcYnQ59uPD6MtG/snqCHI71NLKsKOaWuOQ0bFMuLeWa0Rz6ZUFV6D7d67hs1Eu4RYhv4BPEeclsOBSAp5CSZdsgkolusV9V2ljMm/NQ6AMUJ4Yfq18/3mC1gStI5/0z6fTALRipAfcBvMndTaOFeNS2MY6XEMEqDe4cO1zpseO/NgdJCu0X+j7hvpUkDImxWRfe9UBHb4MJu88+5qR9Lea+wO00MC1V1K/2lBboHhl3H+QZXfiXOXXwBhrHpxhRAKxFmzdQPq4K2GP9hfl9Tec70jiqVKw22Em54g7EclblC5ssle1gMaY/qIAUta+hsD8WRaFwEIugbyKinuAlSyDvNekQw6v9BECa4Voed5G/Yml6h11qFHNFqjvCWxbOktXaihfWxGeOpnQ8QVh/Qc1/A05f30qw+6tFDKYrDQ36v0Czjw9eTS0Whm5ucUvehljbA1hxQJ99LZOZFHbAyTYPFJJQ/vmp8l10PLlB+/IVBFlvsGCCy7Vgl+P+tBqieiN6hmNfDxF57FsHiGKG2HgX+sqi9g0yhG3QU7HbWiGJMt/YDfsmrheLsWuYu/at5yTI81q69zG5LKNeQlDZcqcmRPSCZqbRI+Rx+RwcR3Ctu1emaK8wPH3gMTmJB0njnCB7qufwnWP0EPIYHEH9qGGdEBgEKwPMm2lU2rJ4EOuCi21LeV5NdqUMWwaSH/g1CCbqwGTBXJsqLr8LbsWT2Oau5EH4jGYUb3D92TZZZTfyBlnNiDJnz0cnbz219sEzcvWgTW01GPCtEm1Gumk72lVaPfO6MuQnjZljFLpSwmJaXjmz5oEv9Ex3eWAGhId0a8GIg4ol+/iEQY1G06DknyBnZ5up26BVU5lYNKaRaVyeSqDPQdQKux+/l5sNs6vf7Tvf3OpLWRrlcL3onBJDZ0qERGcOCti4DtUN3+pBqPDbNF1SWw3 RAPdWNcm XPnxHbFuwDtGEyHxzxJfm78AOUOWvfAdLzKEF94Ar5jNyq4wjlDLPx4wppASKvfkuxbRtXA/YScEpx2BsvnlHIZYkkiGMm12WbD3/RJCaSynnEL0om54ds/7hGQN82JZ5P5gP953Yb7mSwEyMfvsn5qqS0DBgRZlGzc0MHaW5oxOyIgE= X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.4 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Precedence: bulk X-Loop: owner-majordomo@kvack.org List-ID: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: DAMON sysfs interface provides files for reading DAMON internal status including DAMOS stats. The content of the files are not automatically updated, though. Users should manually request updates of the contents by writing a special command to 'state' file of each kdamond directory. This interface is good for minimizing overhead, but causes the below problems. First, the usage is cumbersome. This is arguably not a big problem, since the user-space tool (damo) can do this instead of the user. Second, it can be too slow. The update request is not directly handled by the sysfs interface but kdamond thread. And kdamond threads wake up only once per the sampling interval. Hence if sampling interval is not short, each update request could take too long time. The recommended sampling interval setup is asking DAMON to automatically tune it, within a range between 5 milliseconds and 10 seconds. On production systems it is not very rare to have a few seconds sampling interval as a result of the auto-tuning, so this can disturb observing DAMON internal status. Finally, parallel update requests can conflict with each other. When parallel update requests are received, DAMON sysfs interface simply returns -EBUSY to one of the requests. DAMON user-space tool is hence implementing its own backoff mechanism, but this can make the operation even slower. Introduce a new sysfs file, namely refresh_ms, for asking DAMON sysfs interface to repeat the essential contents update with a user-specified time delay. If non-zero value is written to the file, DAMON sysfs interface does the updates for essential DAMON internal status including auto-tuned monitoring intervals, DAMOS stats, and auto-tuned DAMOS quotas using the user-written value as the time delay. If zero is written to the file, the automatic refresh is disabled. SeongJae Park (4): mm/damon/sysfs: implement refresh_ms file under kdamond directory mm/damon/sysfs: implement refresh_ms file internal work Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: document refresh_ms file Docs/ABI/damon: update for refresh_ms .../ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-damon | 7 +++ Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst | 13 ++++- mm/damon/sysfs.c | 58 +++++++++++++++++++ 3 files changed, 75 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) base-commit: 982b86e9191292ffcd0f30018981cb16f9fac5c1 -- 2.39.5