linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v24 11/14] Documentation: Add documents for DAMON

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Date:   Wed, 24 Feb 2021 08:49:55 +0100
From:   SeongJae Park <sjpark@...zon.com>
To:     SeongJae Park <sjpark@...zon.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v24 11/14] Documentation: Add documents for DAMON

On Thu, 4 Feb 2021 16:31:47 +0100 SeongJae Park <sjpark@...zon.com> wrote:

> From: SeongJae Park <sjpark@...zon.de>
> 
> This commit adds documents for DAMON under
> `Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/` and `Documentation/vm/damon/`.
> 
> Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sjpark@...zon.de>
> ---
>  Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/guide.rst | 159 ++++++++++
>  Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/index.rst |  15 +
>  Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/plans.rst |  29 ++
>  Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/start.rst |  97 ++++++
>  Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst | 304 +++++++++++++++++++
>  Documentation/admin-guide/mm/index.rst       |   1 +
>  Documentation/vm/damon/api.rst               |  20 ++
>  Documentation/vm/damon/design.rst            | 166 ++++++++++
>  Documentation/vm/damon/eval.rst              | 232 ++++++++++++++
>  Documentation/vm/damon/faq.rst               |  58 ++++
>  Documentation/vm/damon/index.rst             |  31 ++
>  Documentation/vm/index.rst                   |   1 +
>  12 files changed, 1113 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/guide.rst
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/index.rst
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/plans.rst
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/start.rst
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/vm/damon/api.rst
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/vm/damon/design.rst
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/vm/damon/eval.rst
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/vm/damon/faq.rst
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/vm/damon/index.rst
> 
[...]
> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..32436cf853c7
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst
> @@ -0,0 +1,304 @@
> +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> +
> +===============
> +Detailed Usages
> +===============
> +
> +DAMON provides below three interfaces for different users.
> +
> +- *DAMON user space tool.*
> +  This is for privileged people such as system administrators who want a
> +  just-working human-friendly interface.  Using this, users can use the DAMONâ€™s
> +  major features in a human-friendly way.  It may not be highly tuned for
> +  special cases, though.  It supports only virtual address spaces monitoring.
> +- *debugfs interface.*
> +  This is for privileged user space programmers who want more optimized use of
> +  DAMON.  Using this, users can use DAMONâ€™s major features by reading
> +  from and writing to special debugfs files.  Therefore, 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 is also a reference
> +  implementation of such programs.  It supports only virtual address spaces
> +  monitoring.
> +- *Kernel Space Programming Interface.*
> +  This is for kernel space programmers.  Using this, users can utilize every
> +  feature of DAMON most flexibly and efficiently by writing kernel space
> +  DAMON application programs for you.  You can even extend DAMON for various
> +  address spaces.
> +
> +This document does not describe the kernel space programming interface in
> +detail.  For that, please refer to the :doc:`/vm/damon/api`.
> +
> +
> +DAMON User Space Tool
> +=====================

This version of the patchset doesn't introduce the user space tool source code,
so putting the detailed usage here might make no sense.  I will remove this
section in the next version.  If you will review this patch, please skip this
section.
[...]
> +
> +debugfs Interface
> +=================

But, this section will not be removed.  Please review.

[...]


Thanks,
SeongJae Park