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[$] A 2026 DAMON update

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The kernel's DAMON subsystem provides user-space monitoring and management of system memory. DAMON is developing rapidly, so an update on its progress has become a regular feature of the annual Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit. This tradition continued at the 2026 gathering with an update from DAMON creator SeongJae Park covering a long list of new capabilities — tiering, data attributes monitoring, transparent huge pages, and more — being added to this subsystem.

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