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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/reclaim.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/reclaim.rst index af05ae617018..8eba3da8dcee 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/reclaim.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/reclaim.rst @@ -232,6 +232,28 @@ The end physical address of memory region that DAMON_RECLAIM will do work against. That is, DAMON_RECLAIM will find cold memory regions in this region and reclaims. By default, biggest System RAM is used as the region. +addr_unit +--------- + +A scale factor for memory addresses and bytes. + +This parameter is for setting and getting the :ref:`address unit +<damon_design_addr_unit>` parameter of the DAMON instance for DAMON_RECLAIM. + +``monitor_region_start`` and ``monitor_region_end`` should be provided in this +unit. For example, let's suppose ``addr_unit``, ``monitor_region_start`` and +``monitor_region_end`` are set as ``1024``, ``0`` and ``10``, respectively. +Then DAMON_RECLAIM will work for 10 KiB length of physical address range that +starts from address zero (``[0 * 1024, 10 * 1024)`` in bytes). + +``bytes_reclaim_tried_regions`` and ``bytes_reclaimed_regions`` are also in +this unit. For example, let's suppose values of ``addr_unit``, +``bytes_reclaim_tried_regions`` and ``bytes_reclaimed_regions`` are ``1024``, +``42``, and ``32``, respectively. Then it means DAMON_RECLAIM tried to reclaim +42 KiB memory and successfully reclaimed 32 KiB memory in total. + +If unsure, use only the default value (``1``) and forget about this. + skip_anon --------- |