From: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>,
"Liam R. Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
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>,
Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
bijan311@gmail.com, damon@lists.linux.dev,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: [RFC PATCH 4/5] Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: document obsolete_target file
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2025 14:47:31 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251016214736.84286-5-sj@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251016214736.84286-1-sj@kernel.org>
Document the newly added obsolete_target DAMON sysfs file.
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
---
Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst | 13 ++++++++++---
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst
index 98958975604d..d8a3d6e740b3 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ comma (",").
│ │ │ │ │ │ │ intervals_goal/access_bp,aggrs,min_sample_us,max_sample_us
│ │ │ │ │ │ nr_regions/min,max
│ │ │ │ │ :ref:`targets <sysfs_targets>`/nr_targets
- │ │ │ │ │ │ :ref:`0 <sysfs_target>`/pid_target
+ │ │ │ │ │ │ :ref:`0 <sysfs_target>`/pid_target,obsolete_target
│ │ │ │ │ │ │ :ref:`regions <sysfs_regions>`/nr_regions
│ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ :ref:`0 <sysfs_region>`/start,end
│ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ...
@@ -264,13 +264,20 @@ to ``N-1``. Each directory represents each monitoring target.
targets/<N>/
------------
-In each target directory, one file (``pid_target``) and one directory
-(``regions``) exist.
+In each target directory, two files (``pid_target`` and ``obsolete_target``)
+and one directory (``regions``) exist.
If you wrote ``vaddr`` to the ``contexts/<N>/operations``, each target should
be a process. You can specify the process to DAMON by writing the pid of the
process to the ``pid_target`` file.
+Users can selectively remove targets in the middle of the targets array by
+writing non-zero value to ``obsolete_target`` file and committing it (writing
+``commit`` to ``state`` file). DAMON will remove the matching targets from its
+internal targets array. Users are responsible to construct target directories
+again, so that those correctly represent the changed internal targets array.
+
+
.. _sysfs_regions:
targets/<N>/regions
--
2.47.3
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-10-16 21:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-10-16 21:47 [RFC PATCH 0/5] mm/damon: support pin-point targets removal SeongJae Park
2025-10-16 21:47 ` [RFC PATCH 1/5] mm/damon/core: add damon_target->obsolete for pin-point removal SeongJae Park
2025-10-17 14:52 ` Bijan Tabatabai
2025-10-17 16:30 ` SeongJae Park
2025-10-16 21:47 ` [RFC PATCH 2/5] mm/damon/sysfs: test commit input against realistic destination SeongJae Park
2025-10-16 21:47 ` [RFC PATCH 3/5] mm/damon/sysfs: implement obsolete_target file SeongJae Park
2025-10-16 21:47 ` SeongJae Park [this message]
2025-10-16 21:47 ` [RFC PATCH 5/5] Docs/ABI/damon: document obsolete_target sysfs file SeongJae Park
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