The quilt patch titled
Subject: Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: link design doc for details of kdamond and context
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
docs-admin-guide-mm-damon-usage-link-design-doc-for-details-of-kdamond-and-context.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-stable branch
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
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From: SeongJae Park <sj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: link design doc for details of kdamond and context
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2023 02:29:25 +0000
The explanation of kdamond and context is duplicated in the design and
the usage documents. Replace that in the usage with links to those in
the design document.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230907022929.91361-8-sj@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst | 19 ++++++++---------
Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst | 2 +
2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst~docs-admin-guide-mm-damon-usage-link-design-doc-for-details-of-kdamond-and-context
+++ a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst
@@ -105,14 +105,12 @@ having the root permission could use thi
kdamonds/
---------
-The monitoring-related information including request specifications and results
-are called DAMON context. DAMON executes each context with a kernel thread
-called kdamond, and multiple kdamonds could run in parallel.
-
Under the ``admin`` directory, one directory, ``kdamonds``, which has files for
-controlling the kdamonds exist. In the beginning, this directory has only one
-file, ``nr_kdamonds``. Writing a number (``N``) to the file creates the number
-of child directories named ``0`` to ``N-1``. Each directory represents each
+controlling the kdamonds (refer to
+:ref:`design <damon_design_execution_model_and_data_structures>` for more
+details) exists. In the beginning, this directory has only one file,
+``nr_kdamonds``. Writing a number (``N``) to the file creates the number of
+child directories named ``0`` to ``N-1``. Each directory represents each
kdamond.
kdamonds/<N>/
@@ -150,9 +148,10 @@ kdamonds/<N>/contexts/
In the beginning, this directory has only one file, ``nr_contexts``. Writing a
number (``N``) to the file creates the number of child directories named as
-``0`` to ``N-1``. Each directory represents each monitoring context. At the
-moment, only one context per kdamond is supported, so only ``0`` or ``1`` can
-be written to the file.
+``0`` to ``N-1``. Each directory represents each monitoring context (refer to
+:ref:`design <damon_design_execution_model_and_data_structures>` for more
+details). At the moment, only one context per kdamond is supported, so only
+``0`` or ``1`` can be written to the file.
.. _sysfs_contexts:
--- a/Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst~docs-admin-guide-mm-damon-usage-link-design-doc-for-details-of-kdamond-and-context
+++ a/Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst
@@ -478,6 +478,8 @@ more detail, please read the usage docum
:doc:`/admin-guide/mm/damon/lru_sort`).
+.. _damon_design_execution_model_and_data_structures:
+
Execution Model and Data Structures
===================================
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from sj@xxxxxxxxxx are
