From: Manuel Ebner <manuelebnerli@mailbox.org>
To: SJ Park <sj@kernel.org>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>,
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Manuel Ebner <manuelebnerli@mailbox.org>,
Aveline Noir <jm5905938@gmail.com>,
damon@lists.linux.dev, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v3] Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/reclaim: improve language
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2026 13:00:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261103120043.100887-2-manuelebnerli@mailbox.org> (raw)
Fix upper case. Fix tenses. Replace 'set as' with 'set to'. Add space after
sentence to make it double space. Rewrite and refine complex sentences.
CC: Aveline Noir <jm5905938@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Manuel Ebner <manuelebnerli@mailbox.org>
---
That's the final version.
[v3]
Combine both patches into one
Incorporate SJ's feedback
[v2]
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20261027185938.2526259-2-manuelebnerli@mailbox.org/
Include suggestions from SJ and Aveline
Split [v1] into
[1/2 v2] Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/reclaim: improve grammar and style
[2/2 v2] Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/reclaim: rewrite complex parts
Fixed an upper case and a missing double space -> [1/2 v2]
[v1]
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20261015080623.808458-2-manuelebnerli@mailbox.org/
---
.../admin-guide/mm/damon/reclaim.rst | 43 ++++++++++---------
1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/reclaim.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/reclaim.rst
index e4e2ffa52e..789db7099d 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/reclaim.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/reclaim.rst
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
DAMON-based Reclamation
=======================
-DAMON-based Reclamation (DAMON_RECLAIM) is a static kernel module that aimed to
+DAMON-based reclamation (DAMON_RECLAIM) is a static kernel module that aimes to
be used for proactive and lightweight reclamation under light memory pressure.
It doesn't aim to replace the LRU-list based page_granularity reclamation, but
to be selectively used for different level of memory pressure and requirements.
@@ -30,12 +30,13 @@ guests could mitigate this problem.
How It Works?
=============
-DAMON_RECLAIM finds memory regions that didn't accessed for specific time
-duration and page out. To avoid it consuming too much CPU for the paging out
-operation, a speed limit can be configured. Under the speed limit, it pages
-out memory regions that didn't accessed longer time first. System
-administrators can also configure under what situation this scheme should
-automatically activated and deactivated with three memory pressure watermarks.
+DAMON_RECLAIM finds memory regions that have not been accessed for a
+specified period and attempts to page out those. To avoid it consuming
+too much CPU for the paging out operation, a speed limit can be configured.
+Within the configured speed limit, it prioritizes regions that have been
+idle longer for reclamation. System administrators can also configure under
+what situation this scheme should automatically be activated and deactivated
+with three memory pressure watermarks.
Interface: Module Parameters
============================
@@ -55,10 +56,10 @@ enabled
Enable or disable DAMON_RECLAIM.
-You can enable DAMON_RECLAIM by setting the value of this parameter as ``Y``.
-Setting it as ``N`` disables DAMON_RECLAIM. Note that DAMON_RECLAIM could do
+You can enable DAMON_RECLAIM by setting the value of this parameter to ``Y``.
+Setting it to ``N`` disables DAMON_RECLAIM. Note that DAMON_RECLAIM could do
no real monitoring and reclamation due to the watermarks-based activation
-condition. Refer to below descriptions for the watermarks parameter for this.
+condition. Refer to below descriptions of the watermarks parameter for this.
commit_inputs
-------------
@@ -66,9 +67,9 @@ commit_inputs
Make DAMON_RECLAIM reads the input parameters again, except ``enabled``.
Input parameters that updated while DAMON_RECLAIM is running are not applied
-by default. Once this parameter is set as ``Y``, DAMON_RECLAIM reads values
+by default. Once this parameter is set to ``Y``, DAMON_RECLAIM reads values
of parameters except ``enabled`` again. Once the re-reading is done, this
-parameter is set as ``N``. If invalid parameters are found while the
+parameter is set to ``N``. If invalid parameters are found while the
re-reading, DAMON_RECLAIM will be disabled.
Once ``Y`` is written to this parameter, the user must not write to any
@@ -88,7 +89,7 @@ identifies the region as cold, and reclaims it.
autotune_monitoring_intervals
-----------------------------
-If this parameter is set as ``Y``, DAMON_RECLAIM automatically tunes DAMON's
+If this parameter is set to ``Y``, DAMON_RECLAIM automatically tunes DAMON's
sampling and aggregation intervals. The auto-tuning aims to capture meaningful
amount of access events in each DAMON-snapshot, while keeping the sampling
interval 5 milliseconds in minimum, and 10 seconds in maximum. Setting this as
@@ -113,10 +114,10 @@ quota_sz
Limit of size of memory for the reclamation in bytes.
-DAMON_RECLAIM charges amount of memory which it tried to reclaim within a time
-window (quota_reset_interval_ms) and makes no more than this limit is tried.
-This can be used for limiting consumption of CPU and IO. If this value is
-zero, the limit is disabled.
+DAMON_RECLAIM charges the amount of memory which it tried to reclaim within a time
+window (quota_reset_interval_ms) and stops trying to reclaim memory when this limit
+is reached. This can be used for limiting consumption of CPU and IO. If this value
+is zero, the limit is disabled.
128 MiB by default.
@@ -137,7 +138,7 @@ quota_mem_pressure_us
Desired level of memory pressure-stall time in microseconds.
-While keeping the caps that set by other quotas, DAMON_RECLAIM automatically
+While keeping the caps that are set by other quotas, DAMON_RECLAIM automatically
increases and decreases the effective level of the quota aiming this level of
memory pressure is incurred. System-wide ``some`` memory PSI in microseconds
per quota reset interval (``quota_reset_interval_ms``) is collected and
@@ -219,7 +220,7 @@ monitoring. This can be used to set lower-bound of the monitoring quality.
But, setting this too high could result in increased monitoring overhead.
Please refer to the DAMON documentation (:doc:`usage`) for more detail.
-Note that this must be 3 or higher. Please refer to the :ref:`Monitoring
+Note that this must be 3 or higher. Please refer to the :ref:`Monitoring
<damon_design_monitoring>` section of the design document for the rationale
behind this lower bound.
@@ -263,7 +264,7 @@ This parameter is for setting and getting the :ref:`address unit
``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.
+``monitor_region_end`` are set to ``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).
@@ -280,7 +281,7 @@ skip_anon
Skip anonymous pages reclamation.
-If this parameter is set as ``Y``, DAMON_RECLAIM does not reclaim anonymous
+If this parameter is set to ``Y``, DAMON_RECLAIM does not reclaim anonymous
pages. By default, ``N``.
--
2.55.0
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