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| author | SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> | 2023-09-07 02:29:23 +0000 |
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| committer | Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> | 2023-10-04 10:32:21 -0700 |
| commit | 4f554ca15ad24022178b954e03d73502a98d6d44 (patch) | |
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Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: explain the format of damon_aggregate tracepoint
The example of the section for damon_aggregated tracepoint is not
explaining how the output looks like, and how it can be interpreted.
Add it.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230907022929.91361-6-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/admin-guide')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst | 14 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst index e48101c777e1..758575d33ab6 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst @@ -513,6 +513,20 @@ results using tracepoint supporting tools like ``perf``. For example:: # kill 9 $(pidof perf) # echo off > monitor_on # perf script + kdamond.0 46568 [027] 79357.842179: damon:damon_aggregated: target_id=0 nr_regions=11 122509119488-135708762112: 0 864 + [...] + +Each line of the perf script output represents each monitoring region. The +first five fields are as usual other tracepoint outputs. The sixth field +(``target_id=X``) shows the ide of the monitoring target of the region. The +seventh field (``nr_regions=X``) shows the total number of monitoring regions +for the target. The eighth field (``X-Y:``) shows the start (``X``) and end +(``Y``) addresses of the region in bytes. The ninth field (``X``) shows the +``nr_accesses`` of the region (refer to +:ref:`design <damon_design_region_based_sampling>` for more details of the +counter). Finally the tenth field (``X``) shows the ``age`` of the region +(refer to :ref:`design <damon_design_age_tracking>` for more details of the +counter). .. _debugfs_interface: |