Commit a983a26d5298 ("mm/damon/stat: expose negative idle time") introduced the negative idle time feature for DAMON_STAT. But it is not documented. Document it on the usage document. Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park --- Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/stat.rst | 15 ++++++++------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/stat.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/stat.rst index 754f98d47617..e5a5a2c4f803 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/stat.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/stat.rst @@ -74,12 +74,13 @@ memory_idle_ms_percentiles Per-byte idle time (milliseconds) percentiles of the system. DAMON_STAT calculates how long each byte of the memory was not accessed until -now (idle time), based on the current DAMON results snapshot. If DAMON found a -region of access frequency (nr_accesses) larger than zero, every byte of the -region gets zero idle time. If a region has zero access frequency -(nr_accesses), how long the region was keeping the zero access frequency (age) -becomes the idle time of every byte of the region. Then, DAMON_STAT exposes -the percentiles of the idle time values via this read-only parameter. Reading -the parameter returns 101 idle time values in milliseconds, separated by comma. +now (idle time), based on the current DAMON results snapshot. For regions +having access frequency (nr_accesses) larger than zero, how long the current +access frequency level was kept multiplied by ``-1`` becomes the idlee time of +every byte of the region. If a region has zero access frequency (nr_accesses), +how long the region was keeping the zero access frequency (age) becomes the +idle time of every byte of the region. Then, DAMON_STAT exposes the +percentiles of the idle time values via this read-only parameter. Reading the +parameter returns 101 idle time values in milliseconds, separated by comma. Each value represents 0-th, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, ..., 99th and 100th percentile idle times. -- 2.47.3