From: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>,
"Liam R. Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>,
David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>, Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
Quanmin Yan <yanquanmin1@huawei.com>,
Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
damon@lists.linux.dev, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com, zuoze1@huawei.com
Subject: [PATCH v3 08/11] Docs/mm/damon/design: document 'address unit' parameter
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2025 10:12:39 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250828171242.59810-9-sj@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250828171242.59810-1-sj@kernel.org>
Add 'addr_unit' parameter description on DAMON design document.
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Quanmin Yan <yanquanmin1@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
---
Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst | 14 +++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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:
--
2.39.5
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-08-28 17:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-08-28 17:12 [PATCH v3 00/11] mm/damon: support ARM32 with LPAE SeongJae Park
2025-08-28 17:12 ` [PATCH v3 01/11] mm/damon/core: add damon_ctx->addr_unit SeongJae Park
2025-08-28 17:12 ` [PATCH v3 02/11] mm/damon/paddr: support addr_unit for access monitoring SeongJae Park
2025-08-28 17:12 ` [PATCH v3 03/11] mm/damon/paddr: support addr_unit for DAMOS_PAGEOUT SeongJae Park
2025-08-28 17:12 ` [PATCH v3 04/11] mm/damon/paddr: support addr_unit for DAMOS_LRU_[DE]PRIO SeongJae Park
2025-08-28 17:12 ` [PATCH v3 05/11] mm/damon/paddr: support addr_unit for MIGRATE_{HOT,COLD} SeongJae Park
2025-08-28 17:12 ` [PATCH v3 06/11] mm/damon/paddr: support addr_unit for DAMOS_STAT SeongJae Park
2025-08-28 17:12 ` [PATCH v3 07/11] mm/damon/sysfs: implement addr_unit file under context dir SeongJae Park
2025-08-28 17:12 ` SeongJae Park [this message]
2025-08-28 17:12 ` [PATCH v3 09/11] Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: document addr_unit file SeongJae Park
2025-08-28 17:12 ` [PATCH v3 10/11] Docs/ABI/damon: " SeongJae Park
2025-08-28 17:12 ` [PATCH v3 11/11] mm/damon: add damon_ctx->min_sz_region SeongJae Park
2025-09-17 16:00 ` SeongJae Park
2025-09-17 21:29 ` Andrew Morton
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