damos_wmark_metric_value's return value is 'unsigned long', so returning
-EINVAL as 'unsigned long' may turn out to be very different from the
expected one (using 2's complement) and treat as usual matric's value.
So, fix that, checking if returned value is not 0.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240506180238.53842-1-sj@kernel.org
Fixes: ee801b7dd7 ("mm/damon/schemes: activate schemes based on a watermarks mechanism")
Signed-off-by: Alex Rusuf <yorha.op@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "mm/damon: misc fixes and improvements".
Add miscelleneous and non-urgent fixes and improvements for DAMON code,
selftests, and documents.
This patch (of 10):
damos_quota_init_priv() function should initialize all private fields of
struct damos_quota. However, it is not initializing ->esz_bp field. This
could result in use of uninitialized variable from
damon_feed_loop_next_input() function. There is no such issue at the
moment because every caller of the function is passing damos_quota object
that already having the field zero value. But we cannot guarantee the
future, and the function is not doing what it is promising. A bug is a
bug. This fix is for preventing possible future issues.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240503180318.72798-1-sj@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240503180318.72798-2-sj@kernel.org
Fixes: 9294a037c0 ("mm/damon/core: implement goal-oriented feedback-driven quota auto-tuning")
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
All reclaim_pages() callers are setting 'ignore_references' parameter
'true'. In other words, the parameter is not really being used. Remove
the argument to make it simple.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240429224451.67081-4-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
'pageout' DAMOS action implementation of 'paddr' DAMON operations set asks
reclaim_pages() to do page level access check if the user is not asking
DAMOS to do that on its own. Simplify the logic by making the check
always be done by 'paddr'.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240429224451.67081-3-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "mm/damon/paddr: simplify page level access re-check for
pageout.
The 'pageout' DAMOS action implementation of 'paddr' asks reclaim_pages()
to do page level access check again. But the user can ask 'paddr' to do
the page level access check on its own, using DAMOS filter of 'young page'
type. Meanwhile, 'paddr' is the only user of reclaim_pages() that asks
the page level access check.
Make 'paddr' does the page level access check on its own always, and
simplify reclaim_pages() by removing the page level access check request
handling logic. As a result of the change for reclaim_pages(),
reclaim_folio_list(), which is called by reclaim_pages(), also no more
need to do the page level access check. Simplify the function, too.
This patch (of 4):
'pageout' DAMOS action implementation of 'paddr' asks reclaim_pages() to
do the page level access check. User could ask DAMOS to do the page level
access check on its own using 'young page' type DAMOS filter. In the
case, pageout DAMOS action unnecessarily asks reclaim_pages() to do the
check again. Ask the page level access check only if the scheme is not
having the filter.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240429224451.67081-1-sj@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240429224451.67081-2-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
DAMOS filter of type YOUNG is defined, but not yet implemented by any
DAMON operations set. Add the implementation on 'paddr', the DAMON
operations set for the physical address space.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240426195247.100306-5-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Honggyu Kim <honggyu.kim@sk.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Define yet another DAMOS filter type, YOUNG. Like anon and memcg, the
type of filter will be applied to each page in the memory region, and see
if the page is accessed since the last check. Based on the 'matching'
parameter, the page is filtered out or in.
Note that this commit is adding only the type definition. The
implementation should be made by DAMON operations sets. A commit for the
implementation on 'paddr' DAMON operations set will follow.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240426195247.100306-4-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Honggyu Kim <honggyu.kim@sk.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
damon_pa_mkold() receives physical address, get the folio covering the
address, and makes the folio as old. A following commit will reuse the
internal logic for marking a given folio as old. To avoid duplication of
the code, split the internal logic. Also, change the rmap walker
function's name from __damon_pa_mkold() to damon_folio_mkold_one(),
following the change of the caller's name and the naming rule that more
commonly used by other rmap walkers.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240426195247.100306-3-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Honggyu Kim <honggyu.kim@sk.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "mm/damon: add a DAMOS filter type for page granularity
access recheck".
DAMON provides its best-effort accuracy-overhead tradeoff under the
user-defined ranges of acceptable level of the monitoring accuracy and
overhead. A recent discussion for tiered memory management support from
DAMON[1] concluded that finding memory regions of specific access pattern
with low overhead despite of low accuracy via DAMON first, and then double
checking the access of the region again in a finer (e.g., page)
granularity could be a useful strategy for some DAMOS schemes.
Add a new type of DAMOS filter, namely 'young' for such a case. It checks
each page of DAMOS target region is accessed since the last check, and
filters it out or in if 'matching' parameter is 'true' or 'false',
respectively.
Because this is a filter type that applied in page granularity, the
support depends on DAMON operations set, similar to 'anon' and 'memcg'
DAMOS filter types. Implement the support on the DAMON operations set for
the physical address space, 'paddr', since one of the expected usages[1]
is based on the physical address space.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240227235121.153277-1-sj@kernel.org
This patch (of 7):
damon_pa_young() receives physical address, get the folio covering the
address, and show if the folio is accessed since the last check. A
following commit will reuse the internal logic for checking access to a
given folio. To avoid duplication of the code, split the internal logic.
Also, change the rmap walker function's name from __damon_pa_young() to
damon_folio_young_one(), following the change of the caller's name and the
naming rule that more commonly used by other rmap walkers.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240426195247.100306-1-sj@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240426195247.100306-2-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Honggyu Kim <honggyu.kim@sk.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
While doing MADV_PAGEOUT, the current code will clear PTE young so that
vmscan won't read young flags to allow the reclamation of madvised folios
to go ahead. It seems we can do it by directly ignoring references, thus
we can remove tlb flush in madvise and rmap overhead in vmscan.
Regarding the side effect, in the original code, if a parallel thread runs
side by side to access the madvised memory with the thread doing madvise,
folios will get a chance to be re-activated by vmscan (though the time gap
is actually quite small since checking PTEs is done immediately after
clearing PTEs young). But with this patch, they will still be reclaimed.
But this behaviour doing PAGEOUT and doing access at the same time is
quite silly like DoS. So probably, we don't need to care. Or ignoring
the new access during the quite small time gap is even better.
For DAMON's DAMOS_PAGEOUT based on physical address region, we still keep
its behaviour as is since a physical address might be mapped by multiple
processes. MADV_PAGEOUT based on virtual address is actually much more
aggressive on reclamation. To untouch paddr's DAMOS_PAGEOUT, we simply
pass ignore_references as false in reclaim_pages().
A microbench as below has shown 6% decrement on the latency of
MADV_PAGEOUT,
#define PGSIZE 4096
main()
{
int i;
#define SIZE 512*1024*1024
volatile long *p = mmap(NULL, SIZE, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0);
for (i = 0; i < SIZE/sizeof(long); i += PGSIZE / sizeof(long))
p[i] = 0x11;
madvise(p, SIZE, MADV_PAGEOUT);
}
w/o patch w/ patch
root@10:~# time ./a.out root@10:~# time ./a.out
real 0m49.634s real 0m46.334s
user 0m0.637s user 0m0.648s
sys 0m47.434s sys 0m44.265s
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240226005739.24350-1-21cnbao@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@oppo.com>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Support the PSI-driven quota self-tuning from DAMON_RECLAIM by introducing
yet another parameter, 'quota_mem_pressure_us'. Users can set the desired
amount of memory pressure stall time per each quota reset interval using
the parameter. Then DAMON_RECLAIM monitor the memory pressure stall time,
specifically system-wide memory 'some' PSI value that increased during the
given time interval, and self-tune the quota using the DAMOS core logic.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240219194431.159606-20-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
DAMOS supports user-feedback driven quota auto-tuning, but only DAMON
sysfs interface is using it. Add support of the feature on DAMON_RECLAIM
by adding one more input parameter, namely 'quota_autotune_feedback', for
providing the user feedback to DAMON_RECLAIM. It assumes the target value
of the feedback is 10,000.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240219194431.159606-19-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Extend DAMON sysfs interface to support the PSI-based quota auto-tuning by
adding a new file, 'target_metric' under the quota goal directory. Old
users don't get any behavioral changes since the default value of the
metric is 'user input'.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240219194431.159606-15-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Extend DAMOS quota goal metric with system wide memory pressure stall
time. Specifically, the system level 'some' PSI for memory is used. The
target value can be set in microseconds. DAMOS measures the increased
amount of the PSI metric in last quota_reset_interval and use the ratio of
it versus the user-specified target PSI value as the score for the
auto-tuning feedback loop.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240219194431.159606-14-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
DAMOS quota auto-tuning asks users to assess the current tuned quota and
provide the feedback in a manual and repeated way. It allows users
generate the feedback from a source that the kernel cannot access, and
writing a script or a function for doing the manual and repeated feeding
is not a big deal. However, additional works are additional works, and it
could be more efficient if DAMOS could do the fetch itself, especially in
case of DAMON sysfs interface use case, since it can avoid the context
switches between the user-space and the kernel-space, though the overhead
would be only trivial in most cases. Also in many cases, feedbacks could
be made from kernel-accessible sources, such as PSI, CPU usage, etc. Make
the quota goal to support multiple types of metrics including such ones.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240219194431.159606-13-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
DAMOS quota auto-tuning feature let users to set the goal by providing a
function for getting the current score of the tuned quota. It allows
flexible goal setup, but only simple user-set quota is currently being
used. As a result, the only user of the DAMOS quota auto-tuning is using
a silly void pointer casting based score value passing function. Simplify
the interface and the user code by letting user directly set the target
and the current value.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240219194431.159606-12-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
DAMOS quota auto-tuning feature supports static signle goal and dynamic
multiple goals via DAMON kernel API, specifically via ->goal and ->goals
fields of damos_quota struct, respectively. All in-tree DAMOS kernel API
users are using only the dynamic multiple goals now. Remove the unsued
static single goal interface.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240219194431.159606-11-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
DAMON sysfs interface implements multiple quota auto-tuning goals on its
level since the DAMOS core logic was supporting only single goal. Now the
core logic supports multiple goals on its level. Update DAMON sysfs
interface to reuse the core logic and drop unnecessary duplicated multiple
goals implementation.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240219194431.159606-10-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
The feedback-driven DAMOS quota auto-tuning feature allows only single
goal to the DAMON kernel API users. The API users could implement
multiple goals for the end-users on their level, and that's what DAMON
sysfs interface is doing. More DAMON kernel API users such as
DAMON_RECLAIM would need to do similar work. To reduce unnecessary future
duplciated efforts, support multiple goals from DAMOS core layer. To make
the support in minimum non-destructive change, keep the old single goal
setup interface, and add multiple goals setup. The single goal will
treated as one of the multiple goals, so old API users are not required to
make any change.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240219194431.159606-9-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
'struct damos_quota' is not small now. Split out fields for quota goal to
a separate struct for easier reading.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240219194431.159606-8-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Implement yet another kdamond 'state' file input command, namely
'update_schemes_effective_quotas'. If it is written, the
'effective_bytes' files of the kdamond will be updated to provide the
current effective size quota of each scheme in bytes.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240219194431.159606-4-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
DAMON sysfs interface allows users to set two types of quotas, namely time
quota and size quota. DAMOS converts time quota to a size quota and use
smaller one among the resulting two size quotas. The resulting effective
size quota can be helpful for debugging and analysis, but not exposed to
the user. The recently added feedback-driven quota auto-tuning is making
it even more mysterious.
Implement a DAMON sysfs interface read-only empty file, namely
'effective_bytes', under the quota goal DAMON sysfs directory. It will be
extended to expose the effective quota to the end user.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240219194431.159606-3-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "mm/damon: let DAMOS feeds and tame/auto-tune itself".
The Aim-oriented Feedback-driven DAMOS Aggressiveness Auto-tuning
patchset[1] which has merged since commit 9294a037c0 ("mm/damon/core:
implement goal-oriented feedback-driven quota auto-tuning") made the
mechanism and the policy separated. That is, users can set a part of
DAMOS control policies without a deep understanding of the mechanism but
just their demands such as SLA.
However, users are still required to do some additional work of manually
collecting their target metric and feeding it to DAMOS. In the case of
end-users who use DAMON sysfs interface, the context switches between
user-space and kernel-space could also make it inefficient. The overhead
is supposed to be only trivial in common cases, though. Meanwhile, in
simple use cases, the target metric could be common system metrics that
the kernel can efficiently self-retrieve, such as memory pressure stall
time (PSI).
Extend DAMOS quota auto-tuning to support multiple types of metrics
including the DAMOS self-retrievable ones, and add support for memory
pressure stall time metric. Different types of metrics can be supported
in future. The auto-tuning capability is currently supported for only
users of DAMOS kernel API and DAMON sysfs interface. Extend the support
to DAMON_RECLAIM.
Patches Sequence
================
First five patches are for helping debugging and fine-tuning existing
quota control features. The first one (patch 1) exposes the effective
quota that is made with given user inputs to DAMOS kernel API users and
kernel-doc documents. Following four patches implement (patches 1, 2 and
3) and document (patches 4 and 5) a new DAMON sysfs file that exposes the
value.
Following six patches cleanup and simplify the existing DAMOS quota
auto-tuning code by improving layout of comments and data structures
(patches 6 and 7), supporting common use cases, namely multiple goals
(patches 8, 9 and 10), and simplifying the interface (patch 11).
Then six patches for the main purpose of this patchset follow. The first
three changes extend the core logic for various target metrics (patch 12),
implement memory pressure stall time-based target metric support (patch
13), and update DAMON sysfs interface to support the new target metric
(patch 14). Then, documentation updates for the features on design (patch
15), ABI (patch 16), and usage (patch 17) follow.
Last three patches add auto-tuning support on DAMON_RECLAIM. The patches
implement DAMON_RECLAIM parameters for user-feedback driven quota
auto-tuning (patch 18), memory pressure stall time-driven quota
self-tuning (patch 19), and finally update the DAMON_RECLAIM usage
document for the new parameters (patch 20).
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20231130023652.50284-1-sj@kernel.org/
This patch (of 20):
DAMOS allow users to specify the quota as they want in multiple ways
including time quota, size quota, and feedback-based auto-tuning. DAMOS
makes one effective quota out of the inputs and use it at the end.
Knowing the current effective quota helps understanding DAMOS' internal
mechanism and fine-tuning quotas. DAMON kernel API users can get the
information from ->esz field of damos_quota struct, but the field is
marked as private purpose, and not kernel-doc documented. Make it public
and document.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240219194431.159606-1-sj@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240219194431.159606-2-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
DAMON sysfs interface need to access kdamond-touching data for some of
kdamond user commands. It uses ->after_aggregation() kdamond callback to
safely access the data in the case. It had to use the aggregation
interval callback because that was the only callback that users can access
complete monitoring results.
Since patch series "mm/damon: provide pseudo-moving sum based access
rate", which starts from commit 78fbfb155d ("mm/damon/core: define and
use a dedicated function for region access rate update"), DAMON provides
good-to-use quality moitoring results for every sampling interval. It
aims to help users who need to quickly retrieve the monitoring results.
When the aggregation interval is set too long and therefore waiting for
the aggregation interval can degrade user experience, or when the access
pattern is expected to be significantly changed[1] could be such cases.
However, because DAMON sysfs interface is still handling the commands per
aggregation interval, the end user cannot get the benefit. Update DAMON
sysfs interface to handle kdamond commands for every sampling interval if
applicable. Specifically, all kdamond data accessing commands except
'commit' command are applicable.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240129121316.GA9706@cuiyangpei
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240206025158.203097-1-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: xiongping1 <xiongping1@xiaomi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Kernel builders could silently enable CONFIG_DAMON_DBGFS_DEPRECATED.
Users who manually check the files under the DAMON debugfs directory could
notice the deprecation owing to the 'DEPRECATED' DAMON debugfs file, but
there could be users who doesn't manually check the files.
Make the deprecation cannot be ignored in the case by renaming
'monitor_on' file, which is essential for real use of DAMON on runtime, to
'monitor_on_DEPRECATED'. Still users who control DAMON via only
user-space tool could ignore the deprecation, but that's what the tool
developers should take care of. DAMON user-space tool, damo, has also
made a change[1] for the purpose.
[1] commit 935dae76f2aee ("_damon_args: Rename --damon_interface to
--damon_interface_DEPRECATED") of https://github.com/awslabs/damo
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240130013549.89538-8-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org>
Cc: Hu Haowen <2023002089@link.tyut.edu.cn>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
DAMON debugfs interface deprecation message is written twice, once for the
warning, and again for DEPRECATED file's read output. De-duplicate those
by defining the message as a macro and reuse.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/comnst/const/]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240130013549.89538-5-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org>
Cc: Hu Haowen <2023002089@link.tyut.edu.cn>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Implement a read-only file for DAMON debugfs interface deprecation notice,
to let users who manually read/write the DAMON debugfs files from their
shell command line easily notice the fact.
[arnd@arndb.de: fix bogus string length]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240202124339.892862-1-arnd@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240130013549.89538-4-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org>
Cc: Hu Haowen <2023002089@link.tyut.edu.cn>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
DAMON debugfs interface is deprecated. The fact has documented by commit
5445fcbc4c ("Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: add DAMON debugfs
interface deprecation notice"). Commit 620932cd28 ("mm/damon/dbgfs:
print DAMON debugfs interface deprecation message") further started
printing a warning message when users still use it. Many people don't
read documentation or kernel log, though.
Make the deprecation harder to be ignored using the approach of commit
eb07c4f39c ("mm/slab: rename CONFIG_SLAB to CONFIG_SLAB_DEPRECATED").
'make oldconfig' with 'CONFIG_DAMON_DBGFS=y' will get a new prompt with
the explicit deprecation notice on the name. 'make olddefconfig' with
'CONFIG_DAMON_DBGFS=y' will result in not building DAMON debugfs
interface. If there is a real user of DAMON debugfs interface, they will
complain the change to the builder.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240130013549.89538-3-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org>
Cc: Hu Haowen <2023002089@link.tyut.edu.cn>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
For online parameters change, DAMON_LRU_SORT creates new schemes based on
latest values of the parameters and replaces the old schemes with the new
one. When creating it, the internal status of the quotas of the old
schemes is not preserved. As a result, charging of the quota starts from
zero after the online tuning. The data that collected to estimate the
throughput of the scheme's action is also reset, and therefore the
estimation should start from the scratch again. Because the throughput
estimation is being used to convert the time quota to the effective size
quota, this could result in temporal time quota inaccuracy. It would be
recovered over time, though. In short, the quota accuracy could be
temporarily degraded after online parameters update.
Fix the problem by checking the case and copying the internal fields for
the status.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240216194025.9207-3-sj@kernel.org
Fixes: 40e983cca9 ("mm/damon: introduce DAMON-based LRU-lists Sorting")
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [6.0+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "mm/damon: fix quota status loss due to online tunings".
DAMON_RECLAIM and DAMON_LRU_SORT is not preserving internal quota status
when applying new user parameters, and hence could cause temporal quota
accuracy degradation. Fix it by preserving the status.
This patch (of 2):
For online parameters change, DAMON_RECLAIM creates new scheme based on
latest values of the parameters and replaces the old scheme with the new
one. When creating it, the internal status of the quota of the old
scheme is not preserved. As a result, charging of the quota starts from
zero after the online tuning. The data that collected to estimate the
throughput of the scheme's action is also reset, and therefore the
estimation should start from the scratch again. Because the throughput
estimation is being used to convert the time quota to the effective size
quota, this could result in temporal time quota inaccuracy. It would be
recovered over time, though. In short, the quota accuracy could be
temporarily degraded after online parameters update.
Fix the problem by checking the case and copying the internal fields for
the status.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240216194025.9207-1-sj@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240216194025.9207-2-sj@kernel.org
Fixes: e035c280f6 ("mm/damon/reclaim: support online inputs update")
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [5.19+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
'commit_schemes_quota_goals' command handler,
damos_sysfs_set_quota_scores() assumes the number of schemes sysfs
directory will be same to the number of schemes of the DAMON context. The
assumption is wrong since users can remove schemes sysfs directories while
DAMON is running. In the case, illegal memory accesses can happen. Fix
it by checking the case.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240213023633.124928-1-sj@kernel.org
Fixes: d91beaa505 ("mm/damon/sysfs-schemes: implement a command for scheme quota goals only commit")
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
kdamond_apply_schemes() checks apply intervals of schemes and avoid
further applying any schemes if no scheme passed its apply interval.
However, the following schemes applying function, damon_do_apply_schemes()
iterates all schemes without the apply interval check. As a result, the
shortest apply interval is applied to all schemes. Fix the problem by
checking the apply interval in damon_do_apply_schemes().
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240205201306.88562-1-sj@kernel.org
Fixes: 42f994b714 ("mm/damon/core: implement scheme-specific apply interval")
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [6.7.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
DAMON sysfs interface's update_schemes_tried_regions command has a timeout
of two apply intervals of the DAMOS scheme. Having zero value DAMOS
scheme apply interval means it will use the aggregation interval as the
value. However, the timeout setup logic is mistakenly using the sampling
interval insted of the aggregartion interval for the case. This could
cause earlier-than-expected timeout of the command. Fix it.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240202191956.88791-1-sj@kernel.org
Fixes: 7d6fa31a2f ("mm/damon/sysfs-schemes: add timeout for update_schemes_tried_regions")
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 6.7.x
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
asm-generic/mman-common.h can be replaced by linux/mman.h and the file
will still build correctly. It is an asm-generic file which should be
avoided if possible.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231221-asmgenericvaddr-v1-1-742b170c914e@google.com
Fixes: 6dea8add4d ("mm/damon/vaddr: support DAMON-based Operation Schemes")
Signed-off-by: Tanzir Hasan <tanzirh@google.com>
Suggested-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Commit 35f5d94187 ("mm/damon: implement a function for max nr_accesses
safe calculation") has fixed an overflow bug that could cause
divide-by-zero. Add a kunit test for the bug to ensure similar bugs are
not introduced again.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231213190338.54146-3-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "mm/damon: misc updates for 6.8".
Update comments, tests, and documents for DAMON.
This patch (of 6):
SeongJae is using his kernel.org account for DAMON development. Update
the old email addresses on the comments of DAMON source files.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231213190338.54146-1-sj@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231213190338.54146-2-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
The cleanup tasks of kdamond threads including reset of corresponding
DAMON context's ->kdamond field and decrease of global nr_running_ctxs
counter is supposed to be executed by kdamond_fn(). However, commit
0f91d13366 ("mm/damon: simplify stop mechanism") made neither
damon_start() nor damon_stop() ensure the corresponding kdamond has
started the execution of kdamond_fn().
As a result, the cleanup can be skipped if damon_stop() is called fast
enough after the previous damon_start(). Especially the skipped reset
of ->kdamond could cause a use-after-free.
Fix it by waiting for start of kdamond_fn() execution from
damon_start().
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231208175018.63880-1-sj@kernel.org
Fixes: 0f91d13366 ("mm/damon: simplify stop mechanism")
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Jakub Acs <acsjakub@amazon.de>
Cc: Changbin Du <changbin.du@intel.com>
Cc: Jakub Acs <acsjakub@amazon.de>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 5.15.x
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Implement a simple kunit test for testing the behavior of the feedback
loop algorithm for the aim-oriented feedback-friven DAMOS aggressiveness
auto tuning.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231130023652.50284-6-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com>
Cc: David Gow <davidgow@google.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To update DAMOS quota goals, users need to enter 'commit' command to the
'state' file of the kdamond, which applies not only the goals but entire
inputs. It is inefficient. Implement yet another 'state' file input
command for reading and committing only the scheme quota goals, namely
'commit_schemes_quota_goals'.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231130023652.50284-5-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com>
Cc: David Gow <davidgow@google.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Make DAMON sysfs interface to read the user inputs for DAMOS quota goals
and pass those to DAMOS, so that the users can use the quota auto-tuning
feature. It uses the DAMON sysfs interface's user input commit mechanism,
which applies all user inputs for initial starting of DAMON and online
input updates, which can be done by writing 'on' and 'commit' to the
kdamond's 'state' file, respectively. In other words, the user should
periodically write appropriate value to 'current_value' files and 'commit'
command to the 'state' file. 'target_value' files could also be similarly
updated at any time.
Note that the interface is supporting multiple goals while the core logic
supports only one goal. DAMON sysfs interface passes only best feedback
among the given inputs, to avoid making DAMOS too aggressive.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231130023652.50284-4-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com>
Cc: David Gow <davidgow@google.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Implement DAMON sysfs directories and files for the goals of DAMOS quota.
Those allow users set multiple goals for their aim, with target values.
Users can further enter the current score value for each goal as feedback
for DAMOS.
Note that this commit is implementing only the basic file operations, and
not connecting the files with the DAMOS core logic. Hence writing
something to the files makes no real effect. The following commit will
connect the file operations and the core logic.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231130023652.50284-3-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com>
Cc: David Gow <davidgow@google.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "mm/damon: let users feed and tame/auto-tune DAMOS".
Introduce Aim-oriented Feedback-driven DAMOS Aggressiveness Auto-tuning.
It makes DAMOS self-tuned with periodic simple user feedback.
Background: DAMOS Control Difficulty
====================================
DAMOS helps users easily implement access pattern aware system operations.
However, controlling DAMOS in the wild is not that easy.
The basic way for DAMOS control is specifying the target access pattern.
In this approach, the user is assumed to well understand the access
pattern and the characteristics of the system and the workloads. Though
there are useful tools for that, it takes time and effort depending on the
complexity and the dynamicity of the system and the workloads. After all,
the access pattern consists of three ranges, namely the size, the access
rate, and the age of the regions. It means users need to tune six
parameters, which is anyway not a simple task.
One of the worst cases would be DAMOS being too aggressive like a
berserker, and therefore consuming too much system resource and making
unwanted radical system operations. To let users avoid such cases, DAMOS
allows users to set the upper-limit of the schemes' aggressiveness, namely
DAMOS quota. DAMOS further provides its best-effort under the limit by
prioritizing regions based on the access pattern of the regions. For
example, users can ask DAMOS to page out up to 100 MiB of memory regions
per second. Then DAMOS pages out regions that are not accessed for a
longer time (colder) first under the limit. This allows users to set the
target access pattern a bit naive with wider ranges, and focus on tuning
only one parameter, the quota. In other words, the number of parameters
to tune can be reduced from six to one.
Still, however, the optimum value for the quota depends on the system and
the workloads' characteristics, so not that simple. The number of
parameters to tune can also increase again if the user needs to run
multiple schemes.
Aim-oriented Feedback-driven DAMOS Aggressiveness Auto Tuning
=============================================================
Users would use DAMOS since they want to achieve something with it. They
will likely have measurable metrics representing the achievement and the
target number of the metric like SLO, and continuously measure that
anyway. While the additional cost of getting the information is nearly
zero, it could be useful for DAMOS to understand how appropriate its
current aggressiveness is set, and adjust it on its own to make the metric
value more close to the target.
Based on this idea, we introduce a new way of tuning DAMOS with nearly
zero additional effort, namely Aim-oriented Feedback-driven DAMOS
Aggressiveness Auto Tuning. It asks users to provide feedback
representing how well DAMOS is doing relative to the users' aim. Then
DAMOS adjusts its aggressiveness, specifically the quota that provides
the best effort result under the limit, based on the current level of
the aggressiveness and the users' feedback.
Implementation
==============
The implementation asks users to represent the feedback with score
numbers. The scores could be anything including user-space specific
metrics including latency and throughput of special user-space workloads,
and system metrics including free memory ratio, memory pressure stall time
(PSI), and active to inactive LRU lists size ratio. The feedback scores
and the aggressiveness of the given DAMOS scheme are assumed to be
positively proportional, though. Selecting metrics of the assumption is
the users' responsibility.
The core logic uses the below simple feedback loop algorithm to calculate
the next aggressiveness level of the scheme from the current
aggressiveness level and the current feedback (target_score and
current_score). It calculates the compensation for next aggressiveness as
a proportion of current aggressiveness and distance to the target score.
As a result, it arrives at the near-goal state in a short time using big
steps when it's far from the goal, but avoids making unnecessarily radical
changes that could turn out to be a bad decision using small steps when
its near to the goal.
f(n) = max(1, f(n - 1) * ((target_score - current_score) / target_score + 1))
Note that the compensation value becomes negative when it's over
achieving the goal. That's why the feedback metric and the
aggressiveness of the scheme should be positively proportional. The
distance-adaptive speed manipulation is simply applied.
Example Use Cases
=================
If users want to reduce the memory footprint of the system as much as
possible as long as the time spent for handling the resulting memory
pressure is within a threshold, they could use DAMOS scheme that reclaims
cold memory regions aiming for a little level of memory pressure stall
time.
If users want the active/inactive LRU lists well balanced to reduce the
performance impact due to possible future memory pressure, they could use
two schemes. The first one would be set to locate hot pages in the active
LRU list, aiming for a specific active-to-inactive LRU list size ratio,
say, 70%. The second one would be to locate cold pages in the inactive
LRU list, aiming for a specific inactive-to-active LRU list size ratio,
say, 30%. Then, DAMOS will balance the two schemes based on the goal and
feedback.
This aim-oriented auto tuning could also be useful for general
balancing-required access aware system operations such as system memory
auto scaling[3] and tiered memory management[4]. These two example usages
are not what current DAMOS implementation is already supporting, but
require additional DAMOS action developments, though.
Evaluation: subtle memory pressure aiming proactive reclamation
===============================================================
To show if the implementation works as expected, we prepare four different
system configurations on AWS i3.metal instances. The first setup
(original) runs the workload without any DAMOS scheme. The second setup
(not-tuned) runs the workload with a virtual address space-based proactive
reclamation scheme that pages out memory regions that are not accessed for
five seconds or more. The third setup (offline-tuned) runs the same
proactive reclamation DAMOS scheme, but after making it tuned for each
workload offline, using our previous user-space driven automatic tuning
approach, namely DAMOOS[1]. The fourth and final setup (AFDAA) runs the
scheme that is the same as that of 'not-tuned' setup, but aims to keep
0.5% of 'some' memory pressure stall time (PSI) for the last 10 seconds
using the aiming-oriented auto tuning.
For each setup, we run realistic workloads from PARSEC3 and SPLASH-2X
benchmark suites. For each run, we measure RSS and runtime of the
workload, and 'some' memory pressure stall time (PSI) of the system. We
repeat the runs five times and use averaged measurements.
For simple comparison of the results, we normalize the measurements to
those of 'original'. In the case of the PSI, though, the measurement for
'original' was zero, so we normalize the value to that of 'not-tuned'
scheme's result. The normalized results are shown below.
Not-tuned Offline-tuned AFDAA
RSS 0.622688178226118 0.787950678944904 0.740093483278979
runtime 1.11767826657912 1.0564674983585 1.0910833880499
PSI 1 0.727521443794069 0.308498846350299
The 'not-tuned' scheme achieves about 38.7% memory saving but incur about
11.7% runtime slowdown. The 'offline-tuned' scheme achieves about 22.2%
memory saving with about 5.5% runtime slowdown. It also achieves about
28.2% memory pressure stall time saving. AFDAA achieves about 26% memory
saving with about 9.1% runtime slowdown. It also achieves about 69.1%
memory pressure stall time saving. We repeat this test multiple times,
and get consistent results. AFDAA is now integrated in our daily DAMON
performance test setup.
Apparently the aggressiveness of 'AFDAA' setup is somewhere between those
of 'not-tuned' and 'offline-tuned' setup, since its memory saving and
runtime overhead are between those of the other two setups. Actually we
set the memory pressure stall time goal aiming for this middle
aggressiveness. The difference in the two metrics are not significant,
though. However, it shows significant saving of the memory pressure stall
time, which was the goal of the auto-tuning, over the two variants.
Hence, we conclude the automatic tuning is working as expected.
Please note that the AFDAA setup is only for the evaluation, and
therefore intentionally set a bit aggressive. It might not be
appropriate for production environments.
The test code is also available[2], so you could reproduce it on your
system and workloads.
Patches Sequence
================
The first four patches implement the core logic and user interfaces for
the auto tuning. The first patch implements the core logic for the auto
tuning, and the API for DAMOS users in the kernel space. The second
patch implements basic file operations of DAMON sysfs directories and
files that will be used for setting the goals and providing the
feedback. The third patch connects the quota goals files inputs to the
DAMOS core logic. Finally the fourth patch implements a dedicated DAMOS
sysfs command for efficiently committing the quota goals feedback.
Two patches for simple tests of the logic and interfaces follow. The
fifth patch implements the core logic unit test. The sixth patch
implements a selftest for the DAMON Sysfs interface for the goals.
Finally, three patches for documentation follows. The seventh patch
documents the design of the feature. The eighth patch updates the API
doc for the new sysfs files. The final eighth patch updates the usage
document for the features.
References
==========
[1] DAOS paper:
https://www.amazon.science/publications/daos-data-access-aware-operating-system
[2] Evaluation code:
3f884e6119
[3] Memory auto scaling RFC idea:
https://lore.kernel.org/damon/20231112195114.61474-1-sj@kernel.org/
[4] DAMON-based tiered memory management RFC idea:
https://lore.kernel.org/damon/20231112195602.61525-1-sj@kernel.org/
This patch (of 9)
Users can effectively control the upper-limit aggressiveness of DAMOS
schemes using the quota feature. The quota provides best result under the
limit by prioritizing regions based on the access pattern. That said,
finding the best value, which could depend on dynamic characteristics of
the system and the workloads, is still challenging.
Implement a simple feedback-driven tuning mechanism and use it for
automatic tuning of DAMOS quota. The implementation allows users to
provide the feedback by setting a feedback score returning callback
function. Then DAMOS periodically calls the function back and adjusts the
quota based on the return value of the callback and current quota value.
Note that the absolute-value based time/size quotas still work as the
maximum hard limits of the scheme's aggressiveness. The feedback-driven
auto-tuned quota is applied only if it is not exceeding the manually set
maximum limits. Same for the scheme-target access pattern and filters
like other features.
[sj@kernel.org: document get_score_arg field of struct damos_quota]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231204170106.60992-1-sj@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231130023652.50284-1-sj@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231130023652.50284-2-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com>
Cc: David Gow <davidgow@google.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
damon_split_region_at() should set access rate related fields of the
resulting regions same. It may forgotten, and actually there was the
mistake before. Test it with the unit test case for the function.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231119171529.66863-2-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com>
Cc: David Gow <davidgow@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
If a scheme is set to not applied to any monitoring target region for any
reasons including the target access pattern, quota, filters, or
watermarks, writing 'update_schemes_tried_regions' to 'state' DAMON sysfs
file can indefinitely hang. Fix the case by implementing a timeout for
the operation. The time limit is two apply intervals of each scheme.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231124213840.39157-1-sj@kernel.org
Fixes: 4d4e41b682 ("mm/damon/sysfs-schemes: do not update tried regions more than one DAMON snapshot")
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Regions split function ('damon_split_region_at()') is called at the
beginning of an aggregation interval, and when DAMOS applying the actions
and charging quota. Because 'nr_accesses' fields of all regions are reset
at the beginning of each aggregation interval, and DAMOS was applying the
action at the end of each aggregation interval, there was no need to copy
the 'nr_accesses' field to the split-out region.
However, commit 42f994b714 ("mm/damon/core: implement scheme-specific
apply interval") made DAMOS applies action on its own timing interval.
Hence, 'nr_accesses' should also copied to split-out regions, but the
commit didn't. Fix it by copying it.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231119171529.66863-1-sj@kernel.org
Fixes: 42f994b714 ("mm/damon/core: implement scheme-specific apply interval")
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
The function '__damos_filter_out()' causes DAMON to always filter out
schemes whose filter type is anon or memcg if its matching value is set
to false.
This commit addresses the issue by ensuring that '__damos_filter_out()'
no longer applies to filters whose type is 'anon' or 'memcg'.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1699594629-3816-1-git-send-email-hyeongtak.ji@gmail.com
Fixes: ab9bda001b ("mm/damon/core: introduce address range type damos filter")
Signed-off-by: Hyeongtak Ji <hyeongtak.ji@sk.com>
Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
DAMON sysfs interface's before_damos_apply callback
(damon_sysfs_before_damos_apply()), which creates the DAMOS tried regions
for each DAMOS action applied region, is not handling the allocation
failure for the sysfs directory data. As a result, NULL pointer
derefeence is possible. Fix it by handling the case.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231106233408.51159-4-sj@kernel.org
Fixes: f1d13cacab ("mm/damon/sysfs: implement DAMOS tried regions update command")
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [6.2+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
DAMOS tried regions sysfs directory allocation function
(damon_sysfs_scheme_regions_alloc()) is not handling the memory allocation
failure. In the case, the code will dereference NULL pointer. Handle the
failure to avoid such invalid access.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231106233408.51159-3-sj@kernel.org
Fixes: 9277d0367b ("mm/damon/sysfs-schemes: implement scheme region directory")
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [6.2+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "mm/damon/sysfs: fix unhandled return values".
Some of DAMON sysfs interface code is not handling return values from some
functions. As a result, confusing user input handling or NULL-dereference
is possible. Check those properly.
This patch (of 3):
damon_sysfs_update_target() returns error code for failures, but its
caller, damon_sysfs_set_targets() is ignoring that. The update function
seems making no critical change in case of such failures, but the behavior
will look like DAMON sysfs is silently ignoring or only partially
accepting the user input. Fix it.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231106233408.51159-1-sj@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231106233408.51159-2-sj@kernel.org
Fixes: 19467a950b ("mm/damon/sysfs: remove requested targets when online-commit inputs")
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [5.19+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Alex Rusuf