API Reference¶
Kernel space programs can use every feature of DAMON using below APIs.  All you
need to do is including damon.h, which is located in include/linux/ of
the source tree.
Structures¶
- 
struct damon_addr_range¶
- Represents an address region of [start, end). 
Definition:
struct damon_addr_range {
    unsigned long start;
    unsigned long end;
};
Members
- start
- Start address of the region (inclusive). 
- end
- End address of the region (exclusive). 
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struct damon_region¶
- Represents a monitoring target region. 
Definition:
struct damon_region {
    struct damon_addr_range ar;
    unsigned long sampling_addr;
    unsigned int nr_accesses;
    unsigned int nr_accesses_bp;
    struct list_head list;
    unsigned int age;
};
Members
- ar
- The address range of the region. 
- sampling_addr
- Address of the sample for the next access check. 
- nr_accesses
- Access frequency of this region. 
- nr_accesses_bp
- nr_accesses in basis point (0.01%) that updated for each sampling interval. 
- list
- List head for siblings. 
- age
- Age of this region. 
Description
nr_accesses is reset to zero for every damon_attrs->aggr_interval and be
increased for every damon_attrs->sample_interval if an access to the region
during the last sampling interval is found.  The update of this field should
not be done with direct access but with the helper function,
damon_update_region_access_rate().
nr_accesses_bp is another representation of nr_accesses in basis point
(1 in 10,000) that updated for every damon_attrs->sample_interval in a
manner similar to moving sum.  By the algorithm, this value becomes
nr_accesses * 10000 for every struct damon_attrs->aggr_interval.  This can
be used when the aggregation interval is too huge and therefore cannot wait
for it before getting the access monitoring results.
age is initially zero, increased for each aggregation interval, and reset to zero again if the access frequency is significantly changed. If two regions are merged into a new region, both nr_accesses and age of the new region are set as region size-weighted average of those of the two regions.
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struct damon_target¶
- Represents a monitoring target. 
Definition:
struct damon_target {
    struct pid *pid;
    unsigned int nr_regions;
    struct list_head regions_list;
    struct list_head list;
};
Members
- pid
- The PID of the virtual address space to monitor. 
- nr_regions
- Number of monitoring target regions of this target. 
- regions_list
- Head of the monitoring target regions of this target. 
- list
- List head for siblings. 
Description
Each monitoring context could have multiple targets.  For example, a context
for virtual memory address spaces could have multiple target processes.  The
pid should be set for appropriate struct damon_operations including the
virtual address spaces monitoring operations.
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enum damos_action¶
- Represents an action of a Data Access Monitoring-based Operation Scheme. 
Constants
- DAMOS_WILLNEED
- Call - madvise()for the region with MADV_WILLNEED.
- DAMOS_COLD
- Call - madvise()for the region with MADV_COLD.
- DAMOS_PAGEOUT
- Call - madvise()for the region with MADV_PAGEOUT.
- DAMOS_HUGEPAGE
- Call - madvise()for the region with MADV_HUGEPAGE.
- DAMOS_NOHUGEPAGE
- Call - madvise()for the region with MADV_NOHUGEPAGE.
- DAMOS_LRU_PRIO
- Prioritize the region on its LRU lists. 
- DAMOS_LRU_DEPRIO
- Deprioritize the region on its LRU lists. 
- DAMOS_MIGRATE_HOT
- Migrate the regions prioritizing warmer regions. 
- DAMOS_MIGRATE_COLD
- Migrate the regions prioritizing colder regions. 
- DAMOS_STAT
- Do nothing but count the stat. 
- NR_DAMOS_ACTIONS
- Total number of DAMOS actions 
Description
The support of each action is up to running struct damon_operations.
enum DAMON_OPS_VADDR and enum DAMON_OPS_FVADDR supports all actions except
enum DAMOS_LRU_PRIO and enum DAMOS_LRU_DEPRIO.  enum DAMON_OPS_PADDR
supports only enum DAMOS_PAGEOUT, enum DAMOS_LRU_PRIO, enum
DAMOS_LRU_DEPRIO, and DAMOS_STAT.
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enum damos_quota_goal_metric¶
- Represents the metric to be used as the goal 
Constants
- DAMOS_QUOTA_USER_INPUT
- User-input value. 
- DAMOS_QUOTA_SOME_MEM_PSI_US
- System level some memory PSI in us. 
- NR_DAMOS_QUOTA_GOAL_METRICS
- Number of DAMOS quota goal metrics. 
Description
Metrics equal to larger than NR_DAMOS_QUOTA_GOAL_METRICS are unsupported.
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struct damos_quota_goal¶
- DAMOS scheme quota auto-tuning goal. 
Definition:
struct damos_quota_goal {
    enum damos_quota_goal_metric metric;
    unsigned long target_value;
    unsigned long current_value;
    union {
        u64 last_psi_total;
    };
    struct list_head list;
};
Members
- metric
- Metric to be used for representing the goal. 
- target_value
- Target value of metric to achieve with the tuning. 
- current_value
- Current value of metric. 
- {unnamed_union}
- anonymous 
- last_psi_total
- Last measured total PSI 
- list
- List head for siblings. 
Description
Data structure for getting the current score of the quota tuning goal. The score is calculated by how close current_value and target_value are. Then the score is entered to DAMON’s internal feedback loop mechanism to get the auto-tuned quota.
If metric is DAMOS_QUOTA_USER_INPUT, current_value should be manually entered by the user, probably inside the kdamond callbacks. Otherwise, DAMON sets current_value with self-measured value of metric.
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struct damos_quota¶
- Controls the aggressiveness of the given scheme. 
Definition:
struct damos_quota {
    unsigned long reset_interval;
    unsigned long ms;
    unsigned long sz;
    struct list_head goals;
    unsigned long esz;
    unsigned int weight_sz;
    unsigned int weight_nr_accesses;
    unsigned int weight_age;
};
Members
- reset_interval
- Charge reset interval in milliseconds. 
- ms
- Maximum milliseconds that the scheme can use. 
- sz
- Maximum bytes of memory that the action can be applied. 
- goals
- Head of quota tuning goals ( - damos_quota_goal) list.
- esz
- Effective size quota in bytes. 
- weight_sz
- Weight of the region’s size for prioritization. 
- weight_nr_accesses
- Weight of the region’s nr_accesses for prioritization. 
- weight_age
- Weight of the region’s age for prioritization. 
Description
To avoid consuming too much CPU time or IO resources for applying the
struct damos->action to large memory, DAMON allows users to set time and/or
size quotas.  The quotas can be set by writing non-zero values to ms and
sz, respectively.  If the time quota is set, DAMON tries to use only up to
ms milliseconds within reset_interval for applying the action.  If the
size quota is set, DAMON tries to apply the action only up to sz bytes
within reset_interval.
Internally, the time quota is transformed to a size quota using estimated
throughput of the scheme’s action.  DAMON then compares it against sz and
uses smaller one as the effective quota.
If goals is not empt, DAMON calculates yet another size quota based on the goals using its internal feedback loop algorithm, for every reset_interval. Then, if the new size quota is smaller than the effective quota, it uses the new size quota as the effective quota.
The resulting effective size quota in bytes is set to esz.
For selecting regions within the quota, DAMON prioritizes current scheme’s
target memory regions using the struct damon_operations->get_scheme_score.
You could customize the prioritization logic by setting weight_sz,
weight_nr_accesses, and weight_age, because monitoring operations are
encouraged to respect those.
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enum damos_wmark_metric¶
- Represents the watermark metric. 
Constants
- DAMOS_WMARK_NONE
- Ignore the watermarks of the given scheme. 
- DAMOS_WMARK_FREE_MEM_RATE
- Free memory rate of the system in [0,1000]. 
- NR_DAMOS_WMARK_METRICS
- Total number of DAMOS watermark metrics 
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struct damos_watermarks¶
- Controls when a given scheme should be activated. 
Definition:
struct damos_watermarks {
    enum damos_wmark_metric metric;
    unsigned long interval;
    unsigned long high;
    unsigned long mid;
    unsigned long low;
};
Members
- metric
- Metric for the watermarks. 
- interval
- Watermarks check time interval in microseconds. 
- high
- High watermark. 
- mid
- Middle watermark. 
- low
- Low watermark. 
Description
If metric is DAMOS_WMARK_NONE, the scheme is always active.  Being active
means DAMON does monitoring and applying the action of the scheme to
appropriate memory regions.  Else, DAMON checks metric of the system for at
least every interval microseconds and works as below.
If metric is higher than high, the scheme is inactivated.  If metric is
between mid and low, the scheme is activated.  If metric is lower than
low, the scheme is inactivated.
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struct damos_stat¶
- Statistics on a given scheme. 
Definition:
struct damos_stat {
    unsigned long nr_tried;
    unsigned long sz_tried;
    unsigned long nr_applied;
    unsigned long sz_applied;
    unsigned long qt_exceeds;
};
Members
- nr_tried
- Total number of regions that the scheme is tried to be applied. 
- sz_tried
- Total size of regions that the scheme is tried to be applied. 
- nr_applied
- Total number of regions that the scheme is applied. 
- sz_applied
- Total size of regions that the scheme is applied. 
- qt_exceeds
- Total number of times the quota of the scheme has exceeded. 
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enum damos_filter_type¶
- Type of memory for - struct damos_filter
Constants
- DAMOS_FILTER_TYPE_ANON
- Anonymous pages. 
- DAMOS_FILTER_TYPE_MEMCG
- Specific memcg’s pages. 
- DAMOS_FILTER_TYPE_YOUNG
- Recently accessed pages. 
- DAMOS_FILTER_TYPE_ADDR
- Address range. 
- DAMOS_FILTER_TYPE_TARGET
- Data Access Monitoring target. 
- NR_DAMOS_FILTER_TYPES
- Number of filter types. 
Description
The anon pages type and memcg type filters are handled by underlying
struct damon_operations as a part of scheme action trying, and therefore
accounted as ‘tried’.  In contrast, other types are handled by core layer
before trying of the action and therefore not accounted as ‘tried’.
The support of the filters that handled by struct damon_operations depend
on the running struct damon_operations.
enum DAMON_OPS_PADDR supports both anon pages type and memcg type filters,
while enum DAMON_OPS_VADDR and enum DAMON_OPS_FVADDR don’t support any of
the two types.
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struct damos_filter¶
- DAMOS action target memory filter. 
Definition:
struct damos_filter {
    enum damos_filter_type type;
    bool matching;
    union {
        unsigned short memcg_id;
        struct damon_addr_range addr_range;
        int target_idx;
    };
    struct list_head list;
};
Members
- type
- Type of the page. 
- matching
- If the matching page should filtered out or in. 
- {unnamed_union}
- anonymous 
- memcg_id
- Memcg id of the question if type is DAMOS_FILTER_MEMCG. 
- addr_range
- Address range if type is DAMOS_FILTER_TYPE_ADDR. 
- target_idx
- Index of the - struct damon_targetof- damon_ctx->adaptive_targetsif type is DAMOS_FILTER_TYPE_TARGET.
- list
- List head for siblings. 
Description
Before applying the damos->action to a memory region, DAMOS checks if each
page of the region matches to this and avoid applying the action if so.
Support of each filter type depends on the running struct damon_operations
and the type.  Refer to enum damos_filter_type for more detai.
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struct damos_access_pattern¶
- Target access pattern of the given scheme. 
Definition:
struct damos_access_pattern {
    unsigned long min_sz_region;
    unsigned long max_sz_region;
    unsigned int min_nr_accesses;
    unsigned int max_nr_accesses;
    unsigned int min_age_region;
    unsigned int max_age_region;
};
Members
- min_sz_region
- Minimum size of target regions. 
- max_sz_region
- Maximum size of target regions. 
- min_nr_accesses
- Minimum - ->nr_accessesof target regions.
- max_nr_accesses
- Maximum - ->nr_accessesof target regions.
- min_age_region
- Minimum age of target regions. 
- max_age_region
- Maximum age of target regions. 
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struct damos¶
- Represents a Data Access Monitoring-based Operation Scheme. 
Definition:
struct damos {
    struct damos_access_pattern pattern;
    enum damos_action action;
    unsigned long apply_interval_us;
    struct damos_quota quota;
    struct damos_watermarks wmarks;
    union {
        int target_nid;
    };
    struct list_head filters;
    struct damos_stat stat;
    struct list_head list;
};
Members
- pattern
- Access pattern of target regions. 
- action
- damo_actionto be applied to the target regions.
- apply_interval_us
- The time between applying the action. 
- quota
- Control the aggressiveness of this scheme. 
- wmarks
- Watermarks for automated (in)activation of this scheme. 
- {unnamed_union}
- anonymous 
- target_nid
- Destination node if action is “migrate_{hot,cold}”. 
- filters
- Additional set of - struct damos_filterfor- action.
- stat
- Statistics of this scheme. 
- list
- List head for siblings. 
Description
For each apply_interval_us, DAMON finds regions which fit in the
pattern and applies action to those. To avoid consuming too much
CPU time or IO resources for the action, quota is used.
If apply_interval_us is zero, damon_attrs->aggr_interval is used instead.
To do the work only when needed, schemes can be activated for specific
system situations using wmarks.  If all schemes that registered to the
monitoring context are inactive, DAMON stops monitoring either, and just
repeatedly checks the watermarks.
target_nid is used to set the migration target node for migrate_hot or migrate_cold actions, which means it’s only meaningful when action is either “migrate_hot” or “migrate_cold”.
Before applying the action to a memory region, struct damon_operations
implementation could check pages of the region and skip action to respect
filters
After applying the action to each region, stat_count and stat_sz is
updated to reflect the number of regions and total size of regions that the
action is applied.
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enum damon_ops_id¶
- Identifier for each monitoring operations implementation 
Constants
- DAMON_OPS_VADDR
- Monitoring operations for virtual address spaces 
- DAMON_OPS_FVADDR
- Monitoring operations for only fixed ranges of virtual address spaces 
- DAMON_OPS_PADDR
- Monitoring operations for the physical address space 
- NR_DAMON_OPS
- Number of monitoring operations implementations 
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struct damon_operations¶
- Monitoring operations for given use cases. 
Definition:
struct damon_operations {
    enum damon_ops_id id;
    void (*init)(struct damon_ctx *context);
    void (*update)(struct damon_ctx *context);
    void (*prepare_access_checks)(struct damon_ctx *context);
    unsigned int (*check_accesses)(struct damon_ctx *context);
    void (*reset_aggregated)(struct damon_ctx *context);
    int (*get_scheme_score)(struct damon_ctx *context,struct damon_target *t, struct damon_region *r, struct damos *scheme);
    unsigned long (*apply_scheme)(struct damon_ctx *context,struct damon_target *t, struct damon_region *r, struct damos *scheme);
    bool (*target_valid)(struct damon_target *t);
    void (*cleanup)(struct damon_ctx *context);
};
Members
- id
- Identifier of this operations set. 
- init
- Initialize operations-related data structures. 
- update
- Update operations-related data structures. 
- prepare_access_checks
- Prepare next access check of target regions. 
- check_accesses
- Check the accesses to target regions. 
- reset_aggregated
- Reset aggregated accesses monitoring results. 
- get_scheme_score
- Get the score of a region for a scheme. 
- apply_scheme
- Apply a DAMON-based operation scheme. 
- target_valid
- Determine if the target is valid. 
- cleanup
- Clean up the context. 
Description
DAMON can be extended for various address spaces and usages.  For this,
users should register the low level operations for their target address
space and usecase via the damon_ctx.ops.  Then, the monitoring thread
(damon_ctx.kdamond) calls init and prepare_access_checks before starting
the monitoring, update after each damon_attrs.ops_update_interval, and
check_accesses, target_valid and prepare_access_checks after each
damon_attrs.sample_interval.  Finally, reset_aggregated is called after
each damon_attrs.aggr_interval.
Each struct damon_operations instance having valid id can be registered
via damon_register_ops() and selected by damon_select_ops() later.
init should initialize operations-related data structures.  For example,
this could be used to construct proper monitoring target regions and link
those to damon_ctx.adaptive_targets.
update should update the operations-related data structures.  For example,
this could be used to update monitoring target regions for current status.
prepare_access_checks should manipulate the monitoring regions to be
prepared for the next access check.
check_accesses should check the accesses to each region that made after the
last preparation and update the number of observed accesses of each region.
It should also return max number of observed accesses that made as a result
of its update.  The value will be used for regions adjustment threshold.
reset_aggregated should reset the access monitoring results that aggregated
by check_accesses.
get_scheme_score should return the priority score of a region for a scheme
as an integer in [0, DAMOS_MAX_SCORE].
apply_scheme is called from kdamond when a region for user provided
DAMON-based operation scheme is found.  It should apply the scheme’s action
to the region and return bytes of the region that the action is successfully
applied.
target_valid should check whether the target is still valid for the
monitoring.
cleanup is called from kdamond just before its termination.
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struct damon_callback¶
- Monitoring events notification callbacks. 
Definition:
struct damon_callback {
    void *private;
    int (*before_start)(struct damon_ctx *context);
    int (*after_wmarks_check)(struct damon_ctx *context);
    int (*after_sampling)(struct damon_ctx *context);
    int (*after_aggregation)(struct damon_ctx *context);
    int (*before_damos_apply)(struct damon_ctx *context,struct damon_target *target,struct damon_region *region, struct damos *scheme);
    void (*before_terminate)(struct damon_ctx *context);
};
Members
- private
- User private data. 
- before_start
- Called before starting the monitoring. 
- after_wmarks_check
- Called after each schemes’ watermarks check. 
- after_sampling
- Called after each sampling. 
- after_aggregation
- Called after each aggregation. 
- before_damos_apply
- Called before applying DAMOS action. 
- before_terminate
- Called before terminating the monitoring. 
Description
The monitoring thread (damon_ctx.kdamond) calls before_start and
before_terminate just before starting and finishing the monitoring,
respectively.  Therefore, those are good places for installing and cleaning
private.
The monitoring thread calls after_wmarks_check after each DAMON-based operation schemes’ watermarks check. If users need to make changes to the attributes of the monitoring context while it’s deactivated due to the watermarks, this is the good place to do.
The monitoring thread calls after_sampling and after_aggregation for each of the sampling intervals and aggregation intervals, respectively. Therefore, users can safely access the monitoring results without additional protection. For the reason, users are recommended to use these callback for the accesses to the results.
If any callback returns non-zero, monitoring stops.
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struct damon_attrs¶
- Monitoring attributes for accuracy/overhead control. 
Definition:
struct damon_attrs {
    unsigned long sample_interval;
    unsigned long aggr_interval;
    unsigned long ops_update_interval;
    unsigned long min_nr_regions;
    unsigned long max_nr_regions;
};
Members
- sample_interval
- The time between access samplings. 
- aggr_interval
- The time between monitor results aggregations. 
- ops_update_interval
- The time between monitoring operations updates. 
- min_nr_regions
- The minimum number of adaptive monitoring regions. 
- max_nr_regions
- The maximum number of adaptive monitoring regions. 
Description
For each sample_interval, DAMON checks whether each region is accessed or
not during the last sample_interval.  If such access is found, DAMON
aggregates the information by increasing damon_region->nr_accesses for
aggr_interval time.  For each aggr_interval, the count is reset.  DAMON
also checks whether the target memory regions need update (e.g., by
mmap() calls from the application, in case of virtual memory monitoring)
and applies the changes for each ops_update_interval.  All time intervals
are in micro-seconds.  Please refer to struct damon_operations and struct
damon_callback for more detail.
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struct damon_ctx¶
- Represents a context for each monitoring. This is the main interface that allows users to set the attributes and get the results of the monitoring. 
Definition:
struct damon_ctx {
    struct damon_attrs attrs;
    struct task_struct *kdamond;
    struct mutex kdamond_lock;
    struct damon_operations ops;
    struct damon_callback callback;
    struct list_head adaptive_targets;
    struct list_head schemes;
};
Members
- attrs
- Monitoring attributes for accuracy/overhead control. 
- kdamond
- Kernel thread who does the monitoring. 
- kdamond_lock
- Mutex for the synchronizations with kdamond. 
- ops
- Set of monitoring operations for given use cases. 
- callback
- Set of callbacks for monitoring events notifications. 
- adaptive_targets
- Head of monitoring targets ( - damon_target) list.
- schemes
- Head of schemes ( - damos) list.
Description
For each monitoring context, one kernel thread for the monitoring is created. The pointer to the thread is stored in kdamond.
Once started, the monitoring thread runs until explicitly required to be
terminated or every monitoring target is invalid.  The validity of the
targets is checked via the damon_operations.target_valid of ops.  The
termination can also be explicitly requested by calling damon_stop().
The thread sets kdamond to NULL when it terminates. Therefore, users can
know whether the monitoring is ongoing or terminated by reading kdamond.
Reads and writes to kdamond from outside of the monitoring thread must
be protected by kdamond_lock.
Note that the monitoring thread protects only kdamond via kdamond_lock. Accesses to other fields must be protected by themselves.
Functions¶
- 
bool damon_is_registered_ops(enum damon_ops_id id)¶
- Check if a given damon_operations is registered. 
Parameters
- enum damon_ops_id id
- Id of the damon_operations to check if registered. 
Return
true if the ops is set, false otherwise.
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int damon_register_ops(struct damon_operations *ops)¶
- Register a monitoring operations set to DAMON. 
Parameters
- struct damon_operations *ops
- monitoring operations set to register. 
Description
This function registers a monitoring operations set of valid struct
damon_operations->id so that others can find and use them later.
Return
0 on success, negative error code otherwise.
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int damon_select_ops(struct damon_ctx *ctx, enum damon_ops_id id)¶
- Select a monitoring operations to use with the context. 
Parameters
- struct damon_ctx *ctx
- monitoring context to use the operations. 
- enum damon_ops_id id
- id of the registered monitoring operations to select. 
Description
This function finds registered monitoring operations set of id and make ctx to use it.
Return
0 on success, negative error code otherwise.
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int damon_set_attrs(struct damon_ctx *ctx, struct damon_attrs *attrs)¶
- Set attributes for the monitoring. 
Parameters
- struct damon_ctx *ctx
- monitoring context 
- struct damon_attrs *attrs
- monitoring attributes 
Description
This function should be called while the kdamond is not running, or an
access check results aggregation is not ongoing (e.g., from
struct damon_callback->after_aggregation or
struct damon_callback->after_wmarks_check callbacks).
Every time interval is in micro-seconds.
Return
0 on success, negative error code otherwise.
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void damon_set_schemes(struct damon_ctx *ctx, struct damos **schemes, ssize_t nr_schemes)¶
- Set data access monitoring based operation schemes. 
Parameters
- struct damon_ctx *ctx
- monitoring context 
- struct damos **schemes
- array of the schemes 
- ssize_t nr_schemes
- number of entries in schemes 
Description
This function should not be called while the kdamond of the context is running.
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int damos_commit_quota_goals(struct damos_quota *dst, struct damos_quota *src)¶
- Commit DAMOS quota goals to another quota. 
Parameters
- struct damos_quota *dst
- The commit destination DAMOS quota. 
- struct damos_quota *src
- The commit source DAMOS quota. 
Description
Copies user-specified parameters for quota goals from src to dst. Users should use this function for quota goals-level parameters update of running DAMON contexts, instead of manual in-place updates.
This function should be called from parameters-update safe context, like DAMON callbacks.
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int damon_commit_ctx(struct damon_ctx *dst, struct damon_ctx *src)¶
- Commit parameters of a DAMON context to another. 
Parameters
- struct damon_ctx *dst
- The commit destination DAMON context. 
- struct damon_ctx *src
- The commit source DAMON context. 
Description
This function copies user-specified parameters from src to dst and update the internal status and results accordingly. Users should use this function for context-level parameters update of running context, instead of manual in-place updates.
This function should be called from parameters-update safe context, like DAMON callbacks.
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int damon_nr_running_ctxs(void)¶
- Return number of currently running contexts. 
Parameters
- void
- no arguments 
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int damon_start(struct damon_ctx **ctxs, int nr_ctxs, bool exclusive)¶
- Starts the monitorings for a given group of contexts. 
Parameters
- struct damon_ctx **ctxs
- an array of the pointers for contexts to start monitoring 
- int nr_ctxs
- size of ctxs 
- bool exclusive
- exclusiveness of this contexts group 
Description
This function starts a group of monitoring threads for a group of monitoring
contexts.  One thread per each context is created and run in parallel.  The
caller should handle synchronization between the threads by itself.  If
exclusive is true and a group of threads that created by other
‘damon_start()’ call is currently running, this function does nothing but
returns -EBUSY.
Return
0 on success, negative error code otherwise.
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int damon_stop(struct damon_ctx **ctxs, int nr_ctxs)¶
- Stops the monitorings for a given group of contexts. 
Parameters
- struct damon_ctx **ctxs
- an array of the pointers for contexts to stop monitoring 
- int nr_ctxs
- size of ctxs 
Return
0 on success, negative error code otherwise.
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int damon_set_region_biggest_system_ram_default(struct damon_target *t, unsigned long *start, unsigned long *end)¶
- Set the region of the given monitoring target as requested, or biggest ‘System RAM’. 
Parameters
- struct damon_target *t
- The monitoring target to set the region. 
- unsigned long *start
- The pointer to the start address of the region. 
- unsigned long *end
- The pointer to the end address of the region. 
Description
This function sets the region of t as requested by start and end. If the values of start and end are zero, however, this function finds the biggest ‘System RAM’ resource and sets the region to cover the resource. In the latter case, this function saves the start and end addresses of the resource in start and end, respectively.
Return
0 on success, negative error code otherwise.
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void damon_update_region_access_rate(struct damon_region *r, bool accessed, struct damon_attrs *attrs)¶
- Update the access rate of a region. 
Parameters
- struct damon_region *r
- The DAMON region to update for its access check result. 
- bool accessed
- Whether the region has accessed during last sampling interval. 
- struct damon_attrs *attrs
- The damon_attrs of the DAMON context. 
Description
Update the access rate of a region with the region’s last sampling interval access check result.
Usually this will be called by damon_operations->check_accesses callback.