Introduce three changes for improving DAMOS stat's provided information, deterministic control, and reading usability.
DAMOS provides stats that are important for understanding its behavior. It lacks information about how many DAMON-generated monitoring output snapshots it has worked on. Add a new stat, nr_snapshots, to show the information. Users can control DAMOS schemes in multiple ways. Using the online parameters commit feature, they can install and uninstall DAMOS schemes whenever they want while keeping DAMON runs. DAMOS quotas and watermarks can be used for manually or automatically turning on/off or adjusting the aggressiveness of the scheme. DAMOS filters can be used for applying the scheme to specific memory entities based on their types and locations. Some users want their DAMOS scheme to be applied to only specific number of DAMON snapshots, for more deterministic control. One example use case is tracepoint based snapshot reading. Add a new knob, max_nr_snapshots, to support this. If the nr_snapshots parameter becomes same to or greater than the value of this parameter, the scheme is deactivated. Users can read DAMOS stats via DAMON's sysfs interface. For deep level investigations on environments having advanced tools like perf and bpftrace, exposing the stats via a tracepoint can be useful. Implement a new tracepoint, namely damon:damos_stat_after_apply_interval. First five patches (patches 1-5) of this series implement the new stat, nr_snapshots, on the core layer (patch 1), expose on DAMON sysfs user interface (patch 2), and update documents (patches 3-5). Following six patches (patches 6-11) are for the new stat based DAMOS deactivation (max_nr_snapshots). The first one (patch 6) of this group updates a kernel-doc comment before making further changes. Then an implementation of it on the core layer (patch 7), an introduction of a new DAMON sysfs interface file for users of the feature (patch 8), and three updates of the documents (patches 9-11) follow. The final one (patch 12) introduces the new tracepoint that exposes the DAMOS stat values for each scheme apply interval. SeongJae Park (12): mm/damon/core: introduce nr_snapshots damos stat mm/damon/sysfs-schemes: introduce nr_snapshots damos stat file Docs/mm/damon/design: update for nr_snapshots damos stat Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: update for nr_snapshots damos stat Docs/ABI/damon: update for nr_snapshots damos stat mm/damon: update damos kerneldoc for stat field mm/damon/core: implement max_nr_snapshots mm/damon/sysfs-schemes: implement max_nr_snapshots file Docs/mm/damon/design: update for max_nr_snapshots Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: update for max_nr_snapshots Docs/ABI/damon: update for max_nr_snapshots mm/damon/core: add trace point for damos stat per apply interval .../ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-damon | 13 ++++++ Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst | 11 ++--- Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst | 7 +++ include/linux/damon.h | 12 ++++-- include/trace/events/damon.h | 41 ++++++++++++++++++ mm/damon/core.c | 37 ++++++++++++++-- mm/damon/sysfs-schemes.c | 43 +++++++++++++++++++ 7 files changed, 153 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) base-commit: 522f1a9fc5f1f0a11af39ba5bedae446322ca0a2 -- 2.47.3
