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[4/6] Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: Mention tracepoint at the beginning

Message ID 20211209131806.19317-5-sj@kernel.org (mailing list archive)
State New
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Series mm/damon: Misc cleanups | expand

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SeongJae Park Dec. 9, 2021, 1:18 p.m. UTC 
To get detailed monitoring results from the user space, users need to
use the damon_aggregated tracepoint.  This commit adds a brief mention
of it at the beginning of the usage document.

Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
---
 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst
index 24137312f601..846c85bf4b9d 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst
@@ -21,7 +21,10 @@  DAMON provides below three interfaces for different users.
   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
   <https://github.com/awslabs/damo>`_ is one example of such programs.  It
-  supports both virtual and physical address spaces monitoring.
+  supports both virtual and physical address spaces monitoring.  Note that this
+  interface provides only simple :ref:`statistics <damos_stats>` for the
+  monitoring results.  For detailed monitoring results, DAMON provides a
+  :ref:`tracepoint <tracepoint>`.
 - *Kernel Space Programming Interface.*
   :doc:`This </vm/damon/api>` is for kernel space programmers.  Using this,
   users can utilize every feature of DAMON most flexibly and efficiently by
@@ -215,6 +218,8 @@  If the value is higher than ``<high mark>`` or lower than ``<low mark>``, the
 scheme is deactivated.  If the value is lower than ``<mid mark>``, the scheme
 is activated.
 
+.. _damos_stats:
+
 Statistics
 ~~~~~~~~~~
 
@@ -268,6 +273,8 @@  the monitoring is turned on.  If you write to the files while DAMON is running,
 an error code such as ``-EBUSY`` will be returned.
 
 
+.. _tracepoint:
+
 Tracepoint for Monitoring Results
 =================================