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The quilt patch titled
Subject: Docs/mm/damon/design: clarify bp is basis point
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
docs-mm-damon-design-clarify-bp-is-basis-point.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-stable branch of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: SJ Park <[email protected]>
Subject: Docs/mm/damon/design: clarify bp is basis point
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2026 07:22:08 -0700

DAMON design document uses "bp" for "basis point" in multiple places. Because it is not clearly mentioned, it is difficult to understand what "bp" stands for. Add the clarification.

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 Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst |    5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst renamed from Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst~docs-mm-damon-design-clarify-bp-is-basis-point +3 -2
@@ -445,7 +445,7 @@ users to set the aimed amount of access
 given time interval.  The target can be specified by the user as a ratio of
 DAMON-observed access events to the theoretical maximum amount of the events
 (``access_bp``) that measured within a given number of aggregations
-(``aggrs``).
+(``aggrs``).  The ratio is in basis point (bp or 1/10,000).
 
 The DAMON-observed access events are calculated in byte granularity based on
 DAMON :ref:`region assumption <damon_design_region_based_sampling>`.  For
@@ -717,7 +717,8 @@ mechanism tries to make ``current_value`
   in microseconds that measured from last quota reset to next quota reset.
   DAMOS does the measurement on its own, so only ``target_value`` need to be
   set by users at the initial time.  In other words, DAMOS does self-feedback.
-- ``node_mem_used_bp``: Specific NUMA node's used memory ratio in bp (1/10,000).
+- ``node_mem_used_bp``: Specific NUMA node's used memory ratio in basis point
+  (bp or 1/10,000).
 - ``node_mem_free_bp``: Specific NUMA node's free memory ratio in bp (1/10,000).
 - ``node_memcg_used_bp``: Specific cgroup's node used memory ratio for a
   specific NUMA node, in bp (1/10,000).

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Patches currently in -mm which might be from [email protected] are

mm-damon-core-introduce-damos_quota_goal-complement.patch mm-damon-core-add-complement-argument-to-damos_new_quota_goal.patch mm-damon-sysfs-schemes-support-quota-goal-complement-flag.patch mm-damon-tests-core-kunit-test-quota_goal-complement-commit.patch selftests-damon-sysfssh-test-quota-goal-complement-flag-file.patch docs-mm-damon-design-document-damos-quota-goal-complement-flag.patch docs-admin-guide-mm-damon-usage-update-for-quota-goal-complement-file.patch docs-abi-damon-update-for-quota-goal-metric-complement-sysfs-file.patch