.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0

================================================================ DAMON: Data Access MONitoring and Access-aware System Operations

DAMON is a Linux kernel subsystem for efficient :ref:data access monitoring <damon_design_monitoring> and :ref:access-aware system operations <damon_design_damos>. It is designed for being

• accurate (for DRAM level memory management),
• light-weight (for production online usages),
• scalable (in terms of memory size),
• tunable (for flexible usages), and
• autoamted (for production operation without manual tunings).

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faq design api maintainer-profile

To utilize and control DAMON from the user-space, please refer to the administration :doc:guide </admin-guide/mm/damon/index>.

If you prefer academic papers for reading and citations, please use the papers from HPDC'22 <https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3502181.3531466>_ and Middleware19 Industry <https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3366626.3368125>_ . Note that those cover DAMON implementations in Linux v5.16 and v5.15, respectively.