diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst index 9237d6a25897..9b823fec974d 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst @@ -25,10 +25,12 @@ DAMON provides below interfaces for different users. interface provides only simple :ref:`statistics ` for the monitoring results. For detailed monitoring results, DAMON provides a :ref:`tracepoint `. -- *debugfs interface.* +- *debugfs interface. (DEPRECATED!)* :ref:`This ` is almost identical to :ref:`sysfs interface - `. This will be removed after next LTS kernel is released, - so users should move to the :ref:`sysfs interface `. + `. This is deprecated, so users should move to the + :ref:`sysfs interface `. If you depend on this and cannot + move, please report your usecase to damon@lists.linux.dev and + linux-mm@kvack.org. - *Kernel Space Programming Interface.* :doc:`This ` is for kernel space programmers. Using this, users can utilize every feature of DAMON most flexibly and efficiently by @@ -487,13 +489,17 @@ the files as above. Above is only for an example. .. _debugfs_interface: -debugfs Interface -================= +debugfs Interface (DEPRECATED!) +=============================== .. note:: - DAMON debugfs interface will be removed after next LTS kernel is released, so - users should move to the :ref:`sysfs interface `. + THIS IS DEPRECATED! + + DAMON debugfs interface is deprecated, so users should move to the + :ref:`sysfs interface `. If you depend on this and cannot + move, please report your usecase to damon@lists.linux.dev and + linux-mm@kvack.org. DAMON exports eight files, ``attrs``, ``target_ids``, ``init_regions``, ``schemes``, ``monitor_on``, ``kdamond_pid``, ``mk_contexts`` and