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# 620932cd 09-Feb-2023 SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>

mm/damon/dbgfs: print DAMON debugfs interface deprecation message

DAMON debugfs interface has announced to be deprecated after >v5.15 LTS
kernel is released. And, v6.1.y has announced to be an LTS[

mm/damon/dbgfs: print DAMON debugfs interface deprecation message

DAMON debugfs interface has announced to be deprecated after >v5.15 LTS
kernel is released. And, v6.1.y has announced to be an LTS[1].

Though the announcement was there for a while, some people might not
noticed that so far. Also, some users could depend on it and have
problems at movng to the alternative (DAMON sysfs interface).

For such cases, warn DAMON debugfs interface deprecation with contacts
to ask helps when any DAMON debugfs interface file is opened.

[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/kernel/website.git/commit/?id=332e9121320bc7461b2d3a79665caf153e51732c

[sj@kernel.org: split DAMON debugfs file open warning message, per Randy]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230209192009.7885-4-sj@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230210044838.63723-4-sj@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230209192009.7885-4-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>

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# 1de09a72 07-Nov-2022 SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>

mm/damon/dbgfs: check if rm_contexts input is for a real context

A user could write a name of a file under 'damon/' debugfs directory,
which is not a user-created context, to 'rm_contexts' file. In

mm/damon/dbgfs: check if rm_contexts input is for a real context

A user could write a name of a file under 'damon/' debugfs directory,
which is not a user-created context, to 'rm_contexts' file. In the case,
'dbgfs_rm_context()' just assumes it's the valid DAMON context directory
only if a file of the name exist. As a result, invalid memory access
could happen as below. Fix the bug by checking if the given input is for
a directory. This check can filter out non-context inputs because
directories under 'damon/' debugfs directory can be created via only
'mk_contexts' file.

This bug has found by syzbot[1].

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/damon/000000000000ede3ac05ec4abf8e@google.com/

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221107165001.5717-2-sj@kernel.org
Fixes: 75c1c2b53c78 ("mm/damon/dbgfs: support multiple contexts")
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: syzbot+6087eafb76a94c4ac9eb@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [5.15.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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# cc713520 16-Sep-2022 Kaixu Xia <kaixuxia@tencent.com>

mm/damon: return void from damon_set_schemes()

There is no point in returning an int from damon_set_schemes(). It always
returns 0 which is meaningless for the caller, so change it to return void
d

mm/damon: return void from damon_set_schemes()

There is no point in returning an int from damon_set_schemes(). It always
returns 0 which is meaningless for the caller, so change it to return void
directly.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1663341635-12675-1-git-send-email-kaixuxia@tencent.com
Signed-off-by: Kaixu Xia <kaixuxia@tencent.com>
Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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# bead3b00 13-Sep-2022 SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>

mm/damon/core: reduce parameters for damon_set_attrs()

Number of parameters for 'damon_set_attrs()' is six. As it could be
confusing and verbose, this commit reduces the number by receiving single

mm/damon/core: reduce parameters for damon_set_attrs()

Number of parameters for 'damon_set_attrs()' is six. As it could be
confusing and verbose, this commit reduces the number by receiving single
pointer to a 'struct damon_attrs'.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220913174449.50645-7-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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# cbeaa77b 13-Sep-2022 SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>

mm/damon/core: use a dedicated struct for monitoring attributes

DAMON monitoring attributes are directly defined as fields of 'struct
damon_ctx'. This makes 'struct damon_ctx' a little long and com

mm/damon/core: use a dedicated struct for monitoring attributes

DAMON monitoring attributes are directly defined as fields of 'struct
damon_ctx'. This makes 'struct damon_ctx' a little long and complicated.
This commit defines and uses a struct, 'struct damon_attrs', which is
dedicated for only the monitoring attributes to make the purpose of the
five values clearer and simplify 'struct damon_ctx'.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220913174449.50645-6-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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# f5a79d7c 08-Sep-2022 Yajun Deng <yajun.deng@linux.dev>

mm/damon: introduce struct damos_access_pattern

damon_new_scheme() has too many parameters, so introduce struct
damos_access_pattern to simplify it.

In additon, we can't use a bpf trace kprobe that

mm/damon: introduce struct damos_access_pattern

damon_new_scheme() has too many parameters, so introduce struct
damos_access_pattern to simplify it.

In additon, we can't use a bpf trace kprobe that has more than 5
parameters.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220908191443.129534-1-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Yajun Deng <yajun.deng@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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# b2d4c646 08-Aug-2022 Kenneth Lee <klee33@uw.edu>

mm/damon/dbgfs: use kmalloc for allocating only one element

Use kmalloc(...) rather than kmalloc_array(1, ...) because the number of
elements we are specifying in this case is 1, kmalloc would accom

mm/damon/dbgfs: use kmalloc for allocating only one element

Use kmalloc(...) rather than kmalloc_array(1, ...) because the number of
elements we are specifying in this case is 1, kmalloc would accomplish the
same thing and we can simplify.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220808220019.1680469-1-klee33@uw.edu
Signed-off-by: Kenneth Lee <klee33@uw.edu>
Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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# 1552fd3e 02-Sep-2022 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

mm/damon/dbgfs: fix memory leak when using debugfs_lookup()

When calling debugfs_lookup() the result must have dput() called on it,
otherwise the memory will leak over time. Fix this up by properly

mm/damon/dbgfs: fix memory leak when using debugfs_lookup()

When calling debugfs_lookup() the result must have dput() called on it,
otherwise the memory will leak over time. Fix this up by properly calling
dput().

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220902191149.112434-1-sj@kernel.org
Fixes: 75c1c2b53c78b ("mm/damon/dbgfs: support multiple contexts")
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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# d26f6070 21-Aug-2022 Badari Pulavarty <badari.pulavarty@intel.com>

mm/damon/dbgfs: avoid duplicate context directory creation

When user tries to create a DAMON context via the DAMON debugfs interface
with a name of an already existing context, the context directory

mm/damon/dbgfs: avoid duplicate context directory creation

When user tries to create a DAMON context via the DAMON debugfs interface
with a name of an already existing context, the context directory creation
fails but a new context is created and added in the internal data
structure, due to absence of the directory creation success check. As a
result, memory could leak and DAMON cannot be turned on. An example test
case is as below:

# cd /sys/kernel/debug/damon/
# echo "off" > monitor_on
# echo paddr > target_ids
# echo "abc" > mk_context
# echo "abc" > mk_context
# echo $$ > abc/target_ids
# echo "on" > monitor_on <<< fails

Return value of 'debugfs_create_dir()' is expected to be ignored in
general, but this is an exceptional case as DAMON feature is depending
on the debugfs functionality and it has the potential duplicate name
issue. This commit therefore fixes the issue by checking the directory
creation failure and immediately return the error in the case.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220821180853.2400-1-sj@kernel.org
Fixes: 75c1c2b53c78 ("mm/damon/dbgfs: support multiple contexts")
Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <badari.pulavarty@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [ 5.15.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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# c364f9af 13-Jun-2022 SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>

mm/damon/dbgfs: add and use mappings between 'schemes' action inputs and 'damos_action' values

Patch series "Extend DAMOS for Proactive LRU-lists Sorting".

Introduction
============

In short, this

mm/damon/dbgfs: add and use mappings between 'schemes' action inputs and 'damos_action' values

Patch series "Extend DAMOS for Proactive LRU-lists Sorting".

Introduction
============

In short, this patchset 1) extends DAMON-based Operation Schemes (DAMOS)
for low overhead data access pattern based LRU-lists sorting, and 2)
implements a static kernel module for easy use of conservatively-tuned
version of that using the extended DAMOS capability.

Background
----------

As page-granularity access checking overhead could be significant on huge
systems, LRU lists are normally not proactively sorted but partially and
reactively sorted for special events including specific user requests,
system calls and memory pressure. As a result, LRU lists are sometimes
not so perfectly prepared to be used as a trustworthy access pattern
source for some situations including reclamation target pages selection
under sudden memory pressure.

DAMON-based Proactive LRU-lists Sorting
---------------------------------------

Because DAMON can identify access patterns of best-effort accuracy while
inducing only user-specified range of overhead, using DAMON for Proactive
LRU-lists Sorting (PLRUS) could be helpful for this situation. The idea
is quite simple. Find hot pages and cold pages using DAMON, and
prioritize hot pages while deprioritizing cold pages on their LRU-lists.

This patchset extends DAMON to support such schemes by introducing a
couple of new DAMOS actions for prioritizing and deprioritizing memory
regions of specific access patterns on their LRU-lists. In detail, this
patchset simply uses 'mark_page_accessed()' and 'deactivate_page()'
functions for prioritization and deprioritization of pages on their LRU
lists, respectively.

To make the scheme easy to use without complex tuning for common
situations, this patchset further implements a static kernel module called
'DAMON_LRU_SORT' using the extended DAMOS functionality. It proactively
sorts LRU-lists using DAMON with conservatively chosen default
hotness/coldness thresholds and small CPU usage quota limit. That is, the
module under its default parameters will make no harm for common situation
but provide some level of benefit for systems having clear hot/cold access
pattern under only memory pressure while consuming only limited small
portion of CPU time.

Related Works
-------------

Proactive reclamation is well known to be helpful for reducing non-optimal
reclamation target selection caused performance drops. However, proactive
reclamation is not a best option for some cases, because it could incur
additional I/O. For an example, it could be prohitive for systems using
storage devices that total number of writes is limited, or cloud block
storages that charges every I/O.

Some proactive reclamation approaches[1,2] induce a level of memory
pressure using memcg files or swappiness while monitoring PSI. As
reclamation target selection is still relying on the original LRU-lists
mechanism, using DAMON-based proactive reclamation before inducing the
proactive reclamation could allow more memory saving with same level of
performance overhead, or less performance overhead with same level of
memory saving.

[1] https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/post/anticipating-your-memory-needs
[2] https://www.pdl.cmu.edu/ftp/NVM/tmo_asplos22.pdf

Evaluation
==========

In short, PLRUS achieves 10% memory PSI (some) reduction, 14% major page
faults reduction, and 3.74% speedup under memory pressure.

Setup
-----

To show the effect of PLRUS, I run PARSEC3 and SPLASH-2X benchmarks under
below variant systems and measure a few metrics including the runtime of
each workload, number of system-wide major page faults, and system-wide
memory PSI (some).

- orig: v5.18-rc4 based mm-unstable kernel + this patchset, but no DAMON scheme
applied.
- mprs: Same to 'orig' but artificial memory pressure is induced.
- plrus: Same to 'mprs' but a radically tuned PLRUS scheme is applied to the
entire physical address space of the system.

For the artificial memory pressure, I set 'memory.limit_in_bytes' to 75%
of the running workload's peak RSS, wait 1 second, remove the pressure by
setting it to 200% of the peak RSS, wait 10 seconds, and repeat the
procedure until the workload finishes[1]. I use zram based swap device.
The tests are automated[2].

[1] https://github.com/awslabs/damon-tests/blob/next/perf/runners/back/0009_memcg_pressure.sh
[2] https://github.com/awslabs/damon-tests/blob/next/perf/full_once_config.sh

Radically Tuned PLRUS
---------------------

To show effect of PLRUS on the PARSEC3/SPLASH-2X workloads which runs for
no long time, we use radically tuned version of PLRUS. The version asks
DAMON to do the proactive LRU-lists sorting as below.

1. Find any memory regions shown some accesses (approximately >=20 accesses per
100 sampling) and prioritize pages of the regions on their LRU lists using
up to 2% CPU time. Under the CPU time limit, prioritize regions having
higher access frequency and kept the access frequency longer first.

2. Find any memory regions shown no access for at least >=5 seconds and
deprioritize pages of the rgions on their LRU lists using up to 2% CPU time.
Under the CPU time limit, deprioritize regions that not accessed for longer
time first.

Results
-------

I repeat the tests 25 times and calculate average of the measured numbers.
The results are as below:

metric orig mprs plrus plrus/mprs
runtime_seconds 190.06 292.83 281.87 0.96
pgmajfaults 852.55 8769420.00 7525040.00 0.86
memory_psi_some_us 106911.00 6943420.00 6220920.00 0.90

The first row is for legend. The first cell shows the metric that the
following cells of the row shows. Second, third, and fourth cells show
the metrics under the configs shown at the first row of the cell, and the
fifth cell shows the metric under 'plrus' divided by the metric under
'mprs'. Second row shows the averaged runtime of the workloads in
seconds. Third row shows the number of system-wide major page faults
while the test was ongoing. Fourth row shows the system-wide memory
pressure stall for some processes in microseconds while the test was
ongoing.

In short, PLRUS achieves 10% memory PSI (some) reduction, 14% major page
faults reduction, and 3.74% speedup under memory pressure. We also
confirmed the CPU usage of kdamond was 2.61% of single CPU, which is below
4% as expected.

Sequence of Patches
===================

The first and second patch cleans up DAMON debugfs interface and
DAMOS_PAGEOUT handling code of physical address space monitoring
operations implementation for easier extension of the code.

The thrid and fourth patches implement a new DAMOS action called
'lru_prio', which prioritizes pages under memory regions which have a
user-specified access pattern, and document it, respectively. The fifth
and sixth patches implement yet another new DAMOS action called
'lru_deprio', which deprioritizes pages under memory regions which have a
user-specified access pattern, and document it, respectively.

The seventh patch implements a static kernel module called
'damon_lru_sort', which utilizes the DAMON-based proactive LRU-lists
sorting under conservatively chosen default parameter. Finally, the
eighth patch documents 'damon_lru_sort'.


This patch (of 8):

DAMON debugfs interface assumes users will write 'damos_action' value
directly to the 'schemes' file. This makes adding new 'damos_action' in
the middle of its definition breaks the backward compatibility of DAMON
debugfs interface, as values of some 'damos_action' could be changed. To
mitigate the situation, this commit adds mappings between the user inputs
and 'damos_action' value and makes DAMON debugfs code uses those.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220613192301.8817-1-sj@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220613192301.8817-2-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>

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Revision tags: v5.15.46
# c9e124e0 06-Jun-2022 SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>

mm/damon/{dbgfs,sysfs}: move target_has_pid() from dbgfs to damon.h

The function for knowing if given monitoring context's targets will have
pid or not is defined and used in dbgfs only. However, t

mm/damon/{dbgfs,sysfs}: move target_has_pid() from dbgfs to damon.h

The function for knowing if given monitoring context's targets will have
pid or not is defined and used in dbgfs only. However, the logic is also
needed for sysfs. This commit moves the code to damon.h and makes both
dbgfs and sysfs to use it.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220606182310.48781-3-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>

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Revision tags: v5.15.45, v5.15.44, v5.15.43, v5.15.42, v5.18, v5.15.41, v5.15.40, v5.15.39, v5.15.38, v5.15.37, v5.15.36, v5.15.35, v5.15.34, v5.15.33, v5.15.32, v5.15.31
# 8b9b0d33 22-Mar-2022 SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>

mm/damon/core: allow non-exclusive DAMON start/stop

Patch series "Introduce DAMON sysfs interface", v3.

Introduction
============

DAMON's debugfs-based user interface (DAMON_DBGFS) served very wel

mm/damon/core: allow non-exclusive DAMON start/stop

Patch series "Introduce DAMON sysfs interface", v3.

Introduction
============

DAMON's debugfs-based user interface (DAMON_DBGFS) served very well, so
far. However, it unnecessarily depends on debugfs, while DAMON is not
aimed to be used for only debugging. Also, the interface receives
multiple values via one file. For example, schemes file receives 18
values. As a result, it is inefficient, hard to be used, and difficult to
be extended. Especially, keeping backward compatibility of user space
tools is getting only challenging. It would be better to implement
another reliable and flexible interface and deprecate DAMON_DBGFS in long
term.

For the reason, this patchset introduces a sysfs-based new user interface
of DAMON. The idea of the new interface is, using directory hierarchies
and having one dedicated file for each value. For a short example, users
can do the virtual address monitoring via the interface as below:

# cd /sys/kernel/mm/damon/admin/
# echo 1 > kdamonds/nr_kdamonds
# echo 1 > kdamonds/0/contexts/nr_contexts
# echo vaddr > kdamonds/0/contexts/0/operations
# echo 1 > kdamonds/0/contexts/0/targets/nr_targets
# echo $(pidof <workload>) > kdamonds/0/contexts/0/targets/0/pid_target
# echo on > kdamonds/0/state

A brief representation of the files hierarchy of DAMON sysfs interface is
as below. Childs are represented with indentation, directories are having
'/' suffix, and files in each directory are separated by comma.

/sys/kernel/mm/damon/admin
│ kdamonds/nr_kdamonds
│ │ 0/state,pid
│ │ │ contexts/nr_contexts
│ │ │ │ 0/operations
│ │ │ │ │ monitoring_attrs/
│ │ │ │ │ │ intervals/sample_us,aggr_us,update_us
│ │ │ │ │ │ nr_regions/min,max
│ │ │ │ │ targets/nr_targets
│ │ │ │ │ │ 0/pid_target
│ │ │ │ │ │ │ regions/nr_regions
│ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 0/start,end
│ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ...
│ │ │ │ │ │ ...
│ │ │ │ │ schemes/nr_schemes
│ │ │ │ │ │ 0/action
│ │ │ │ │ │ │ access_pattern/
│ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ sz/min,max
│ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ nr_accesses/min,max
│ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ age/min,max
│ │ │ │ │ │ │ quotas/ms,bytes,reset_interval_ms
│ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ weights/sz_permil,nr_accesses_permil,age_permil
│ │ │ │ │ │ │ watermarks/metric,interval_us,high,mid,low
│ │ │ │ │ │ │ stats/nr_tried,sz_tried,nr_applied,sz_applied,qt_exceeds
│ │ │ │ │ │ ...
│ │ │ │ ...
│ │ ...

Detailed usage of the files will be described in the final Documentation
patch of this patchset.

Main Difference Between DAMON_DBGFS and DAMON_SYSFS
---------------------------------------------------

At the moment, DAMON_DBGFS and DAMON_SYSFS provides same features. One
important difference between them is their exclusiveness. DAMON_DBGFS
works in an exclusive manner, so that no DAMON worker thread (kdamond) in
the system can run concurrently and interfere somehow. For the reason,
DAMON_DBGFS asks users to construct all monitoring contexts and start them
at once. It's not a big problem but makes the operation a little bit
complex and unflexible.

For more flexible usage, DAMON_SYSFS moves the responsibility of
preventing any possible interference to the admins and work in a
non-exclusive manner. That is, users can configure and start contexts one
by one. Note that DAMON respects both exclusive groups and non-exclusive
groups of contexts, in a manner similar to that of reader-writer locks.
That is, if any exclusive monitoring contexts (e.g., contexts that started
via DAMON_DBGFS) are running, DAMON_SYSFS does not start new contexts, and
vice versa.

Future Plan of DAMON_DBGFS Deprecation
======================================

Once this patchset is merged, DAMON_DBGFS development will be frozen.
That is, we will maintain it to work as is now so that no users will be
break. But, it will not be extended to provide any new feature of DAMON.
The support will be continued only until next LTS release. After that, we
will drop DAMON_DBGFS.

User-space Tooling Compatibility
--------------------------------

As DAMON_SYSFS provides all features of DAMON_DBGFS, all user space
tooling can move to DAMON_SYSFS. As we will continue supporting
DAMON_DBGFS until next LTS kernel release, user space tools would have
enough time to move to DAMON_SYSFS.

The official user space tool, damo[1], is already supporting both
DAMON_SYSFS and DAMON_DBGFS. Both correctness tests[2] and performance
tests[3] of DAMON using DAMON_SYSFS also passed.

[1] https://github.com/awslabs/damo
[2] https://github.com/awslabs/damon-tests/tree/master/corr
[3] https://github.com/awslabs/damon-tests/tree/master/perf

Sequence of Patches
===================

First two patches (patches 1-2) make core changes for DAMON_SYSFS. The
first one (patch 1) allows non-exclusive DAMON contexts so that
DAMON_SYSFS can work in non-exclusive mode, while the second one (patch 2)
adds size of DAMON enum types so that DAMON API users can safely iterate
the enums.

Third patch (patch 3) implements basic sysfs stub for virtual address
spaces monitoring. Note that this implements only sysfs files and DAMON
is not linked. Fourth patch (patch 4) links the DAMON_SYSFS to DAMON so
that users can control DAMON using the sysfs files.

Following six patches (patches 5-10) implements other DAMON features that
DAMON_DBGFS supports one by one (physical address space monitoring,
DAMON-based operation schemes, schemes quotas, schemes prioritization
weights, schemes watermarks, and schemes stats).

Following patch (patch 11) adds a simple selftest for DAMON_SYSFS, and the
final one (patch 12) documents DAMON_SYSFS.

This patch (of 13):

To avoid interference between DAMON contexts monitoring overlapping memory
regions, damon_start() works in an exclusive manner. That is,
damon_start() does nothing bug fails if any context that started by
another instance of the function is still running. This makes its usage a
little bit restrictive. However, admins could aware each DAMON usage and
address such interferences on their own in some cases.

This commit hence implements non-exclusive mode of the function and allows
the callers to select the mode. Note that the exclusive groups and
non-exclusive groups of contexts will respect each other in a manner
similar to that of reader-writer locks. Therefore, this commit will not
cause any behavioral change to the exclusive groups.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220228081314.5770-1-sj@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220228081314.5770-2-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Xin Hao <xhao@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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# 4a20865b 22-Mar-2022 SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>

mm/damon/dbgfs: use operations id for knowing if the target has pid

DAMON debugfs interface depends on monitoring operations for virtual
address spaces because it knows if the target has pid or not

mm/damon/dbgfs: use operations id for knowing if the target has pid

DAMON debugfs interface depends on monitoring operations for virtual
address spaces because it knows if the target has pid or not by seeing if
the context is configured to use one of the virtual address space
monitoring operation functions. We can replace that check with 'enum
damon_ops_id' now, to make it independent. This commit makes the change.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220215184603.1479-7-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Xin Hao <xhao@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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# da7aaca0 22-Mar-2022 SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>

mm/damon/dbgfs: use damon_select_ops() instead of damon_{v,p}a_set_operations()

This commit makes DAMON debugfs interface to select the registered
monitoring operations for the physical address spac

mm/damon/dbgfs: use damon_select_ops() instead of damon_{v,p}a_set_operations()

This commit makes DAMON debugfs interface to select the registered
monitoring operations for the physical address space or virtual address
spaces depending on user requests instead of setting it on its own. Note
that DAMON debugfs interface is still dependent to DAMON_VADDR with this
change, because it is also using its symbol, 'damon_va_target_valid'.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220215184603.1479-6-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Xin Hao <xhao@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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# f7d911c3 22-Mar-2022 SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>

mm/damon: rename damon_primitives to damon_operations

Patch series "Allow DAMON user code independent of monitoring primitives".

In-kernel DAMON user code is required to configure the monitoring co

mm/damon: rename damon_primitives to damon_operations

Patch series "Allow DAMON user code independent of monitoring primitives".

In-kernel DAMON user code is required to configure the monitoring context
(struct damon_ctx) with proper monitoring primitives (struct
damon_primitive). This makes the user code dependent to all supporting
monitoring primitives. For example, DAMON debugfs interface depends on
both DAMON_VADDR and DAMON_PADDR, though some users have interest in only
one use case. As more monitoring primitives are introduced, the problem
will be bigger.

To minimize such unnecessary dependency, this patchset makes monitoring
primitives can be registered by the implemnting code and later dynamically
searched and selected by the user code.

In addition to that, this patchset renames monitoring primitives to
monitoring operations, which is more easy to intuitively understand what
it means and how it would be structed.

This patch (of 8):

DAMON has a set of callback functions called monitoring primitives and let
it can be configured with various implementations for easy extension for
different address spaces and usages. However, the word 'primitive' is not
so explicit. Meanwhile, many other structs resembles similar purpose
calls themselves 'operations'. To make the code easier to be understood,
this commit renames 'damon_primitives' to 'damon_operations' before it is
too late to rename.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220215184603.1479-1-sj@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220215184603.1479-2-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Xin Hao <xhao@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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# 1971bd63 22-Mar-2022 SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>

mm/damon: remove the target id concept

DAMON asks each monitoring target ('struct damon_target') to have one
'unsigned long' integer called 'id', which should be unique among the
targets of same mon

mm/damon: remove the target id concept

DAMON asks each monitoring target ('struct damon_target') to have one
'unsigned long' integer called 'id', which should be unique among the
targets of same monitoring context. Meaning of it is, however, totally up
to the monitoring primitives that registered to the monitoring context.
For example, the virtual address spaces monitoring primitives treats the
id as a 'struct pid' pointer.

This makes the code flexible, but ugly, not well-documented, and
type-unsafe[1]. Also, identification of each target can be done via its
index. For the reason, this commit removes the concept and uses clear
type definition. For now, only 'struct pid' pointer is used for the
virtual address spaces monitoring. If DAMON is extended in future so that
we need to put another identifier field in the struct, we will use a union
for such primitives-dependent fields and document which primitives are
using which type.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20211013154535.4aaeaaf9d0182922e405dd1e@linux-foundation.org/

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211230100723.2238-5-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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# 43642825 22-Mar-2022 SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>

mm/damon/core: move damon_set_targets() into dbgfs

damon_set_targets() function is defined in the core for general use cases,
but called from only dbgfs. Also, because the function is for general u

mm/damon/core: move damon_set_targets() into dbgfs

damon_set_targets() function is defined in the core for general use cases,
but called from only dbgfs. Also, because the function is for general use
cases, dbgfs does additional handling of pid type target id case. To make
the situation simpler, this commit moves the function into dbgfs and makes
it to do the pid type case handling on its own.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211230100723.2238-4-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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# 144760f8 22-Mar-2022 SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>

mm/damon/dbgfs/init_regions: use target index instead of target id

Patch series "Remove the type-unclear target id concept".

DAMON asks each monitoring target ('struct damon_target') to have one
'u

mm/damon/dbgfs/init_regions: use target index instead of target id

Patch series "Remove the type-unclear target id concept".

DAMON asks each monitoring target ('struct damon_target') to have one
'unsigned long' integer called 'id', which should be unique among the
targets of same monitoring context. Meaning of it is, however, totally up
to the monitoring primitives that registered to the monitoring context.
For example, the virtual address spaces monitoring primitives treats the
id as a 'struct pid' pointer.

This makes the code flexible but ugly, not well-documented, and
type-unsafe[1]. Also, identification of each target can be done via its
index. For the reason, this patchset removes the concept and uses clear
type definition.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20211013154535.4aaeaaf9d0182922e405dd1e@linux-foundation.org/

This patch (of 4):

Target id is a 'unsigned long' data, which can be interpreted differently
by each monitoring primitives. For example, it means 'struct pid *' for
the virtual address spaces monitoring, while it means nothing but an
integer to be displayed to debugfs interface users for the physical
address space monitoring. It's flexible but makes code ugly and
type-unsafe[1].

To be prepared for eventual removal of the concept, this commit removes a
use case of the concept in 'init_regions' debugfs file handling. In
detail, this commit replaces use of the id with the index of each target
in the context's targets list.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20211013154535.4aaeaaf9d0182922e405dd1e@linux-foundation.org/

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211230100723.2238-1-sj@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211230100723.2238-2-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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Revision tags: v5.17, v5.15.30, v5.15.29, v5.15.28, v5.15.27, v5.15.26, v5.15.25, v5.15.24, v5.15.23, v5.15.22, v5.15.21, v5.15.20, v5.15.19, v5.15.18, v5.15.17, v5.4.173, v5.15.16, v5.15.15
# 70b84808 14-Jan-2022 SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>

mm/damon/dbgfs: remove an unnecessary variable

Patch series "mm/damon: Hide unnecessary information disclosures".

DAMON is exposing some unnecessary information including kernel pointer
in kernel l

mm/damon/dbgfs: remove an unnecessary variable

Patch series "mm/damon: Hide unnecessary information disclosures".

DAMON is exposing some unnecessary information including kernel pointer
in kernel log and tracepoint. This patchset hides such information.
The first patch is only for a trivial cleanup, though.

This patch (of 4):

This commit removes a unnecessarily used variable in
dbgfs_target_ids_write().

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211229131016.23641-1-sj@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211229131016.23641-2-sj@kernel.org
Fixes: 4bc05954d007 ("mm/damon: implement a debugfs-based user space interface")
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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# 3a619fdb 14-Jan-2022 SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>

mm/damon/dbgfs: support all DAMOS stats

Currently, DAMON debugfs interface is not supporting DAMON-based
Operation Schemes (DAMOS) stats for schemes successfully applied regions
and time/space quota

mm/damon/dbgfs: support all DAMOS stats

Currently, DAMON debugfs interface is not supporting DAMON-based
Operation Schemes (DAMOS) stats for schemes successfully applied regions
and time/space quota limit exceeds. This adds the support.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211210150016.35349-6-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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# 0e92c2ee 14-Jan-2022 SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>

mm/damon/schemes: account scheme actions that successfully applied

Patch series "mm/damon/schemes: Extend stats for better online analysis and tuning".

To help online access pattern analysis and tu

mm/damon/schemes: account scheme actions that successfully applied

Patch series "mm/damon/schemes: Extend stats for better online analysis and tuning".

To help online access pattern analysis and tuning of DAMON-based
Operation Schemes (DAMOS), DAMOS provides simple statistics for each
scheme. Introduction of DAMOS time/space quota further made the tuning
easier by making the risk management easier. However, that also made
understanding of the working schemes a little bit more difficult.

For an example, progress of a given scheme can now be throttled by not
only the aggressiveness of the target access pattern, but also the
time/space quotas. So, when a scheme is showing unexpectedly slow
progress, it's difficult to know by what the progress of the scheme is
throttled, with currently provided statistics.

This patchset extends the statistics to contain some metrics that can be
helpful for such online schemes analysis and tuning (patches 1-2),
exports those to users (patches 3 and 5), and add documents (patches 4
and 6).

This patch (of 6):

DAMON-based operation schemes (DAMOS) stats provide only the number and
the amount of regions that the action of the scheme has tried to be
applied. Because the action could be failed for some reasons, the
currently provided information is sometimes not useful or convenient
enough for schemes profiling and tuning. To improve this situation,
this commit extends the DAMOS stats to provide the number and the amount
of regions that the action has successfully applied.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211210150016.35349-1-sj@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211210150016.35349-2-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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# c89ae63e 14-Jan-2022 Xin Hao <xhao@linux.alibaba.com>

mm/damon/schemes: add the validity judgment of thresholds

In dbgfs "schemes" interface, i do some test like this:
# cd /sys/kernel/debug/damon
# echo "2 1 2 1 10 1 3 10 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 3"

mm/damon/schemes: add the validity judgment of thresholds

In dbgfs "schemes" interface, i do some test like this:
# cd /sys/kernel/debug/damon
# echo "2 1 2 1 10 1 3 10 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 3" > schemes
# cat schemes
# 2 1 2 1 10 1 3 10 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 3 0 0

There have some unreasonable places, i set the valules of these variables
"<min_sz, max_sz> <min_nr_a, max_nr_a>, <min_age, max_age>, <wmarks.high,
wmarks.mid, wmarks.low>" as "<2, 1>, <2, 1>, <10, 1>, <1, 2, 3>.

So there add a validity judgment for these thresholds value.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/d78360e52158d786fcbf20bc62c96785742e76d3.1637239568.git.xhao@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Xin Hao <xhao@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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Revision tags: v5.16
# ebb3f994 30-Dec-2021 SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>

mm/damon/dbgfs: fix 'struct pid' leaks in 'dbgfs_target_ids_write()'

DAMON debugfs interface increases the reference counts of 'struct pid's
for targets from the 'target_ids' file write callback
('d

mm/damon/dbgfs: fix 'struct pid' leaks in 'dbgfs_target_ids_write()'

DAMON debugfs interface increases the reference counts of 'struct pid's
for targets from the 'target_ids' file write callback
('dbgfs_target_ids_write()'), but decreases the counts only in DAMON
monitoring termination callback ('dbgfs_before_terminate()').

Therefore, when 'target_ids' file is repeatedly written without DAMON
monitoring start/termination, the reference count is not decreased and
therefore memory for the 'struct pid' cannot be freed. This commit
fixes this issue by decreasing the reference counts when 'target_ids' is
written.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211229124029.23348-1-sj@kernel.org
Fixes: 4bc05954d007 ("mm/damon: implement a debugfs-based user space interface")
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [5.15+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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# 34796417 24-Dec-2021 SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>

mm/damon/dbgfs: protect targets destructions with kdamond_lock

DAMON debugfs interface iterates current monitoring targets in
'dbgfs_target_ids_read()' while holding the corresponding
'kdamond_lock'

mm/damon/dbgfs: protect targets destructions with kdamond_lock

DAMON debugfs interface iterates current monitoring targets in
'dbgfs_target_ids_read()' while holding the corresponding
'kdamond_lock'. However, it also destructs the monitoring targets in
'dbgfs_before_terminate()' without holding the lock. This can result in
a use_after_free bug. This commit avoids the race by protecting the
destruction with the corresponding 'kdamond_lock'.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211221094447.2241-1-sj@kernel.org
Reported-by: Sangwoo Bae <sangwoob@amazon.com>
Fixes: 4bc05954d007 ("mm/damon: implement a debugfs-based user space interface")
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [5.15.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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Revision tags: v5.15.10, v5.15.9, v5.15.8
# 0bceffa2 10-Dec-2021 SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>

mm/damon/dbgfs: remove an unnecessary error message

When wrong scheme action is requested via the debugfs interface, DAMON
prints an error message. Because the function returns error code, this
is

mm/damon/dbgfs: remove an unnecessary error message

When wrong scheme action is requested via the debugfs interface, DAMON
prints an error message. Because the function returns error code, this
is not really needed. Because the code path is triggered by the user
specified input, this can result in kernel log mistakenly being messy.
To avoid the case, this commit removes the message.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211201150440.1088-3-sj@kernel.org
Fixes: af122dd8f3c0 ("mm/damon/dbgfs: support DAMON-based Operation Schemes")
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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