[RFC PATCH v2 03/10] Docs/mm/damon/design: update for context pause/resume feature

SeongJae Park
2026-03-19T05:22:14Z

Update DAMON design document for the context execution pause/resume
feature.

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

diff --git a/Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst b/Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst
index 838b14d225193..e2e4fe3fb3986 100644
--- a/Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst
+++ b/Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst
@@ -19,6 +19,13 @@ types of monitoring.
To know how user-space can do the configurations and start/stop DAMON, refer to
:ref:`DAMON sysfs interface <sysfs_interface>` documentation.

+Users can also request each context execution to be paused and resumed. When
+it is paused, the kdamond does nothing but only online parameters updates
+including resume request handling.
+
+To know how user-space can pause/resume each context, refer to :ref:`DAMON
+sysfs context <sysfs_context>` usage documentation.
+

Overall Architecture
====================
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2.47.3