@@ -13,12 +13,13 @@ primitives that dependent on and optimized for the target address space. On
the other hand, the accuracy and overhead tradeoff mechanism, which is the core
of DAMON, is in the pure logic space. DAMON separates the two parts in
different layers and defines its interface to allow various low level
-primitives implementations configurable with the core logic.
+primitives implementations configurable with the core logic. We call the low
+level primitives implementations monitoring operations.
Due to this separated design and the configurable interface, users can extend
-DAMON for any address space by configuring the core logics with appropriate low
-level primitive implementations. If appropriate one is not provided, users can
-implement the primitives on their own.
+DAMON for any address space by configuring the core logics with appropriate
+monitoring operations. If appropriate one is not provided, users can implement
+the operations on their own.
For example, physical memory, virtual memory, swap space, those for specific
processes, NUMA nodes, files, and backing memory devices would be supportable.
@@ -26,25 +27,24 @@ Also, if some architectures or devices support special optimized access check
primitives, those will be easily configurable.
-Reference Implementations of Address Space Specific Primitives
-==============================================================
+Reference Implementations of Address Space Specific Monitoring Operations
+=========================================================================
-The low level primitives for the fundamental access monitoring are defined in
-two parts:
+The monitoring operations are defined in two parts:
1. Identification of the monitoring target address range for the address space.
2. Access check of specific address range in the target space.
-DAMON currently provides the implementations of the primitives for the physical
+DAMON currently provides the implementations of the operations for the physical
and virtual address spaces. Below two subsections describe how those work.
VMA-based Target Address Range Construction
-------------------------------------------
-This is only for the virtual address space primitives implementation. That for
-the physical address space simply asks users to manually set the monitoring
-target address ranges.
+This is only for the virtual address space monitoring operations
+implementation. That for the physical address space simply asks users to
+manually set the monitoring target address ranges.
Only small parts in the super-huge virtual address space of the processes are
mapped to the physical memory and accessed. Thus, tracking the unmapped
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ Does DAMON support virtual memory only?
=======================================
No. The core of the DAMON is address space independent. The address space
-specific low level primitive parts including monitoring target regions
+specific monitoring operations including monitoring target regions
constructions and actual access checks can be implemented and configured on the
DAMON core by the users. In this way, DAMON users can monitor any address
space with any access check technique.
DAMON code calls the low level monitoring primitives implementations the monitoring operations. The documentation would have no problem at still calling those primitives implementation because there is no real difference in the concepts, but making it more consistent with the code would make it better. This commit therefore convert sentences in the doc specifically pointing the implementations of the primitives to call it monitoring operations. Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> --- Documentation/vm/damon/design.rst | 24 ++++++++++++------------ Documentation/vm/damon/faq.rst | 2 +- 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)