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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst index a9cb9949b796..084f0a32b421 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst @@ -363,18 +363,21 @@ number (``N``) to the file creates the number of child directories named ``0`` to ``N-1``. Each directory represents each filter. The filters are evaluated in the numeric order. -Each filter directory contains five files, namely ``type``, ``matcing``, -``memcg_path``, ``addr_start``, and ``addr_end``. To ``type`` file, you can -write one of three special keywords: ``anon`` for anonymous pages, ``memcg`` -for specific memory cgroup, or ``addr`` for specific address range (an -open-ended interval) filtering. In case of the memory cgroup filtering, you -can specify the memory cgroup of the interest by writing the path of the memory -cgroup from the cgroups mount point to ``memcg_path`` file. In case of the -address range filtering, you can specify the start and end address of the range -to ``addr_start`` and ``addr_end`` files, respectively. You can write ``Y`` or -``N`` to ``matching`` file to filter out pages that does or does not match to -the type, respectively. Then, the scheme's action will not be applied to the -pages that specified to be filtered out. +Each filter directory contains six files, namely ``type``, ``matcing``, +``memcg_path``, ``addr_start``, ``addr_end``, and ``target_idx``. To ``type`` +file, you can write one of four special keywords: ``anon`` for anonymous pages, +``memcg`` for specific memory cgroup, ``addr`` for specific address range (an +open-ended interval), or ``target`` for specific DAMON monitoring target +filtering. In case of the memory cgroup filtering, you can specify the memory +cgroup of the interest by writing the path of the memory cgroup from the +cgroups mount point to ``memcg_path`` file. In case of the address range +filtering, you can specify the start and end address of the range to +``addr_start`` and ``addr_end`` files, respectively. For the DAMON monitoring +target filtering, you can specify the index of the target between the list of +the DAMON context's monitoring targets list to ``target_idx`` file. You can +write ``Y`` or ``N`` to ``matching`` file to filter out pages that does or does +not match to the type, respectively. Then, the scheme's action will not be +applied to the pages that specified to be filtered out. For example, below restricts a DAMOS action to be applied to only non-anonymous pages of all memory cgroups except ``/having_care_already``.:: @@ -391,11 +394,11 @@ pages of all memory cgroups except ``/having_care_already``.:: Note that ``anon`` and ``memcg`` filters are currently supported only when ``paddr`` `implementation <sysfs_contexts>` is being used. -Also, memory regions that are filtered out by ``addr`` filters are not counted -as the scheme has tried to those, while regions that filtered out by other type -filters are counted as the scheme has tried to. The difference is applied to -:ref:`stats <damos_stats>` and :ref:`tried regions -<sysfs_schemes_tried_regions>`. +Also, memory regions that are filtered out by ``addr`` or ``target`` filters +are not counted as the scheme has tried to those, while regions that filtered +out by other type filters are counted as the scheme has tried to. The +difference is applied to :ref:`stats <damos_stats>` and +:ref:`tried regions <sysfs_schemes_tried_regions>`. .. _sysfs_schemes_stats: |