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[RFC,08/10] Docs/mm/damon/design: document 'address unit' parameter

Message ID 20250416042551.158131-9-sj@kernel.org (mailing list archive)
State New
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Series mm/damon: support address space larger than damon-core address space | expand

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SeongJae Park April 16, 2025, 4:25 a.m. UTC
Add 'addr_unit' parameter description on DAMON design document.

Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
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 Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst | 14 +++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst b/Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst
index aa01d0232adc..696a4d738cb3 100644
--- a/Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst
+++ b/Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@  processes, NUMA nodes, files, and backing memory devices would be supportable.
 Also, if some architectures or devices support special optimized access check
 features, those will be easily configurable.
 
-DAMON currently provides below three operation sets.  Below two subsections
+DAMON currently provides below three operation sets.  Below three subsections
 describe how those work.
 
  - vaddr: Monitor virtual address spaces of specific processes
@@ -137,6 +137,18 @@  the interference is the responsibility of sysadmins.  However, it solves the
 conflict with the reclaim logic using ``PG_idle`` and ``PG_young`` page flags,
 as Idle page tracking does.
 
+Address Unit
+------------
+
+DAMON core layer uses ``unsinged long`` type for monitoring target address
+ranges.  In some cases, the address space for a given operations set could be
+too large to be handled with the type.  ARM (32-bit) with large physical
+address extension is an example.  For such cases, a per-operations set
+parameter called ``address unit`` is provided.  It represents the scale factor
+that need to be multiplied to the core layer's address for calculating real
+address on the given address space.  Support of ``address unit`` parameter is
+up to each operations set implementation.  ``paddr`` is the only operations set
+implementation that supports the parameter.
 
 .. _damon_core_logic: