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| author | SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> | 2025-10-26 21:22:11 +0300 |
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| committer | Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> | 2025-11-17 04:28:22 +0300 |
| commit | 448666e418bfe456bbc629f978c8b6d6c5027212 (patch) | |
| tree | 02404e21f995be32a16e6639dd92e9b1d0f1e514 /Documentation/admin-guide | |
| parent | bb01656e003de155f8575483089c66f89f535026 (diff) | |
| download | linux-448666e418bfe456bbc629f978c8b6d6c5027212.tar.xz | |
Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/lru_sort: document addr_unit parameter
Commit 2e0fe9245d6b ("mm/damon/lru_sort: support addr_unit for
DAMON_LRU_SORT") introduced the 'addr_unit' parameter for DAMON_LRU_SORT.
But the usage document is not updated for that. Update the document.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251026182216.118200-7-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/admin-guide')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/lru_sort.rst | 22 |
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/lru_sort.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/lru_sort.rst index 7b0775d281b4..72a943202676 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/lru_sort.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/lru_sort.rst @@ -211,6 +211,28 @@ End of target memory region in physical address. The end physical address of memory region that DAMON_LRU_SORT will do work against. By default, biggest System RAM is used as the region. +addr_unit +--------- + +A scale factor for memory addresses and bytes. + +This parameter is for setting and getting the :ref:`address unit +<damon_design_addr_unit>` parameter of the DAMON instance for DAMON_RECLAIM. + +``monitor_region_start`` and ``monitor_region_end`` should be provided in this +unit. For example, let's suppose ``addr_unit``, ``monitor_region_start`` and +``monitor_region_end`` are set as ``1024``, ``0`` and ``10``, respectively. +Then DAMON_LRU_SORT will work for 10 KiB length of physical address range that +starts from address zero (``[0 * 1024, 10 * 1024)`` in bytes). + +Stat parameters having ``bytes_`` prefix are also in this unit. For example, +let's suppose values of ``addr_unit``, ``bytes_lru_sort_tried_hot_regions`` and +``bytes_lru_sorted_hot_regions`` are ``1024``, ``42``, and ``32``, +respectively. Then it means DAMON_LRU_SORT tried to LRU-sort 42 KiB of hot +memory and successfully LRU-sorted 32 KiB of the memory in total. + +If unsure, use only the default value (``1``) and forget about this. + kdamond_pid ----------- |