[RFC PATCH v3 06/13] Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: document dests directory

From: Bijan Tabatabai
Date: Wed Jul 02 2025 - 16:15:31 EST


From: SeongJae Park <sj@xxxxxxxxxx>

Document the newly added DAMOS action destination directory of the DAMON
sysfs interface on the usage document.

Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst | 33 +++++++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst
index d960aba72b82..fc5c962353ed 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst
@@ -85,6 +85,8 @@ comma (",").
│ │ │ │ │ │ │ :ref:`watermarks <sysfs_watermarks>`/metric,interval_us,high,mid,low
│ │ │ │ │ │ │ :ref:`{core_,ops_,}filters <sysfs_filters>`/nr_filters
│ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 0/type,matching,allow,memcg_path,addr_start,addr_end,target_idx,min,max
+ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ :ref:`dests <damon_sysfs_dests>`/nr_dests
+ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 0/id,weight
│ │ │ │ │ │ │ :ref:`stats <sysfs_schemes_stats>`/nr_tried,sz_tried,nr_applied,sz_applied,sz_ops_filter_passed,qt_exceeds
│ │ │ │ │ │ │ :ref:`tried_regions <sysfs_schemes_tried_regions>`/total_bytes
│ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 0/start,end,nr_accesses,age,sz_filter_passed
@@ -307,10 +309,10 @@ to ``N-1``. Each directory represents each DAMON-based operation scheme.
schemes/<N>/
------------

-In each scheme directory, seven directories (``access_pattern``, ``quotas``,
-``watermarks``, ``core_filters``, ``ops_filters``, ``filters``, ``stats``, and
-``tried_regions``) and three files (``action``, ``target_nid`` and
-``apply_interval``) exist.
+In each scheme directory, eight directories (``access_pattern``, ``quotas``,
+``watermarks``, ``core_filters``, ``ops_filters``, ``filters``, ``dests``,
+``stats``, and ``tried_regions``) and three files (``action``, ``target_nid``
+and ``apply_interval``) exist.

The ``action`` file is for setting and getting the scheme's :ref:`action
<damon_design_damos_action>`. The keywords that can be written to and read
@@ -484,6 +486,29 @@ Refer to the :ref:`DAMOS filters design documentation
of different ``allow`` works, when each of the filters are supported, and
differences on stats.

+.. _damon_sysfs_dests:
+
+schemes/<N>/dests/
+------------------
+
+Directory for specifying the destinations of given DAMON-based operation
+scheme's action. This directory is ignored if the action of the given scheme
+is not supporting multiple destinations. Only ``DAMOS_MIGRATE_{HOT,COLD}``
+actions are supporting multiple destinations.
+
+In the beginning, the directory has only one file, ``nr_dests``. Writing a
+number (``N``) to the file creates the number of child directories named ``0``
+to ``N-1``. Each directory represents each action destination.
+
+Each destination directory contains two files, namely ``id`` and ``weight``.
+Users can write and read the identifier of the destination to ``id`` file.
+For ``DAMOS_MIGRATE_{HOT,COLD}`` actions, the migrate destination node's node
+id should be written to ``id`` file. Users can write and read the weight of
+the destination among the given destinations to the ``weight`` file. The
+weight can be an arbitrary integer. When DAMOS apply the action to each entity
+of the memory region, it will select the destination of the action based on the
+relative weights of the destinations.
+
.. _sysfs_schemes_stats:

schemes/<N>/stats/
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