linux-kernel - [PATCH 13/13] Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: update for DAMON monitoring target type DAMOS filter

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Date:   Wed,  2 Aug 2023 21:43:12 +0000
From:   SeongJae Park <sj@...nel.org>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     SeongJae Park <sj@...nel.org>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        damon@...ts.linux.dev, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 13/13] Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: update for DAMON monitoring target type DAMOS filter

Update DAMON usage document for newly added DAMON monitoring target type
DAMOS filter.

Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@...nel.org>
---
 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst | 37 +++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

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:
 
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