From: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> mainline inclusion from mainline-v5.17-rc1 commit 4492bf452af532493b6591d2e090a0f8f7c11674 category: bugfix bugzilla: https://gitee.com/openeuler/kernel/issues/I4RTX9 Reference: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?i... -------------------------------- To get detailed monitoring results from the user space, users need to use the damon_aggregated tracepoint. This commit adds a brief mention of it at the beginning of the usage document. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211209131806.19317-5-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> (cherry picked from commit 4492bf452af532493b6591d2e090a0f8f7c11674) Signed-off-by: Yue Zou <zouyue3@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Kefeng Wang<wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Zheng Zengkai <zhengzengkai@huawei.com> --- Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst index 24137312f601..846c85bf4b9d 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst @@ -21,7 +21,10 @@ DAMON provides below three interfaces for different users. you can write and use your personalized DAMON debugfs wrapper programs that reads/writes the debugfs files instead of you. The `DAMON user space tool <https://github.com/awslabs/damo>`_ is one example of such programs. It - supports both virtual and physical address spaces monitoring. + supports both virtual and physical address spaces monitoring. Note that this + interface provides only simple :ref:`statistics <damos_stats>` for the + monitoring results. For detailed monitoring results, DAMON provides a + :ref:`tracepoint <tracepoint>`. - *Kernel Space Programming Interface.* :doc:`This </vm/damon/api>` is for kernel space programmers. Using this, users can utilize every feature of DAMON most flexibly and efficiently by @@ -215,6 +218,8 @@ If the value is higher than ``<high mark>`` or lower than ``<low mark>``, the scheme is deactivated. If the value is lower than ``<mid mark>``, the scheme is activated. +.. _damos_stats: + Statistics ~~~~~~~~~~ @@ -268,6 +273,8 @@ the monitoring is turned on. If you write to the files while DAMON is running, an error code such as ``-EBUSY`` will be returned. +.. _tracepoint: + Tracepoint for Monitoring Results ================================= -- 2.20.1