The patch titled Subject: mm/damon/core: handle zero {aggregation,ops_update} intervals has been added to the -mm mm-hotfixes-unstable branch. Its filename is mm-damon-core-handle-zero-aggregationops_update-intervals.patch

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------------------------------------------------------ From: SeongJae Park sj@kernel.org Subject: mm/damon/core: handle zero {aggregation,ops_update} intervals Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2024 11:37:56 -0700

Patch series "mm/damon/core: fix handling of zero non-sampling intervals".

DAMON's internal intervals accounting logic is not correctly handling non-sampling intervals of zero values for a wrong assumption. This could cause unexpected monitoring behavior, and even result in infinite hang of DAMON sysfs interface user threads in case of zero aggregation interval. Fix those by updating the intervals accounting logic. For details of the root case and solutions, please refer to commit messages of fixes.

This patch (of 2):

DAMON's logics to determine if this is the time to do aggregation and ops update assumes next_{aggregation,ops_update}_sis are always set larger than current passed_sample_intervals. And therefore it further assumes continuously incrementing passed_sample_intervals every sampling interval will make it reaches to the next_{aggregation,ops_update}_sis in future. The logic therefore make the action and update next_{aggregation,ops_updaste}_sis only if passed_sample_intervals is same to the counts, respectively.

If Aggregation interval or Ops update interval are zero, however, next_aggregation_sis or next_ops_update_sis are set same to current passed_sample_intervals, respectively. And passed_sample_intervals is incremented before doing the next_{aggregation,ops_update}_sis check. Hence, passed_sample_intervals becomes larger than next_{aggregation,ops_update}_sis, and the logic says it is not the time to do the action and update next_{aggregation,ops_update}_sis forever, until an overflow happens. In other words, DAMON stops doing aggregations or ops updates effectively forever, and users cannot get monitoring results.

Based on the documents and the common sense, a reasonable behavior for such inputs is doing an aggregation and an ops update for every sampling interval. Handle the case by removing the assumption.

Note that this could incur particular real issue for DAMON sysfs interface users, in case of zero Aggregation interval. When user starts DAMON with zero Aggregation interval and asks online DAMON parameter tuning via DAMON sysfs interface, the request is handled by the aggregation callback. Until the callback finishes the work, the user who requested the online tuning just waits. Hence, the user will be stuck until the passed_sample_intervals overflows.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241031183757.49610-1-sj@kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241031183757.49610-2-sj@kernel.org Fixes: 4472edf63d66 ("mm/damon/core: use number of passed access sampling as a timer") 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 ---

mm/damon/core.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/damon/core.c~mm-damon-core-handle-zero-aggregationops_update-intervals +++ a/mm/damon/core.c @@ -2000,7 +2000,7 @@ static int kdamond_fn(void *data) if (ctx->ops.check_accesses) max_nr_accesses = ctx->ops.check_accesses(ctx);

- if (ctx->passed_sample_intervals == next_aggregation_sis) { + if (ctx->passed_sample_intervals >= next_aggregation_sis) { kdamond_merge_regions(ctx, max_nr_accesses / 10, sz_limit); @@ -2018,7 +2018,7 @@ static int kdamond_fn(void *data)

sample_interval = ctx->attrs.sample_interval ? ctx->attrs.sample_interval : 1; - if (ctx->passed_sample_intervals == next_aggregation_sis) { + if (ctx->passed_sample_intervals >= next_aggregation_sis) { ctx->next_aggregation_sis = next_aggregation_sis + ctx->attrs.aggr_interval / sample_interval;

@@ -2028,7 +2028,7 @@ static int kdamond_fn(void *data) ctx->ops.reset_aggregated(ctx); }

- if (ctx->passed_sample_intervals == next_ops_update_sis) { + if (ctx->passed_sample_intervals >= next_ops_update_sis) { ctx->next_ops_update_sis = next_ops_update_sis + ctx->attrs.ops_update_interval / sample_interval; _

Patches currently in -mm which might be from sj@kernel.org are

mm-damon-core-handle-zero-aggregationops_update-intervals.patch mm-damon-core-handle-zero-schemes-apply-interval.patch selftests-damon-huge_count_read_write-remove-unnecessary-debugging-message.patch selftests-damon-_debugfs_common-hide-expected-error-message-from-test_write_result.patch selftests-damon-debugfs_duplicate_context_creation-hide-errors-from-expected-file-write-failures.patch mm-damon-kconfig-update-dbgfs_kunit-prompt-copy-for-sysfs_kunit.patch mm-damon-tests-dbgfs-kunit-fix-the-header-double-inclusion-guarding-ifdef-comment.patch