[RFC PATCH v2 3/4] mm/damon: New module with hot application detection

gutierrez.asier
2026-03-10T16:25:36Z

From: Asier Gutierrez <gutierrez.asier@huawei-partners.com>

1. It first launches a new kthread called damon_dynamic. This thread
will behave as a supervisor, launching new kdamond threads for all
the processes we want to montiored. The tasks are sorted
by utime delta. For the top N tasks, a new kdamond thread will be
launched. Applications which turn cold will have their kdamond
stopped.

The processes are supplied by the monitored_pids parameter. When the
module is enabled, it will go through all the monitored_pids, start
the supervisor and a new kdamond thread for each of the tasks. This
tasks can be modified and applied using the commit_input parameters.
In that case, we will stop any kdamond thread for tasks that are not
going to be monitored anymore, and start a new kdamond thread for each
new task to be monitored. For tasks that were monitored before and are
still monitored after commiting a new monitored_pids list, kdamond
threads are left intact.

2. Initially we don't know the min_access for each of the task. We
want to find the highest min_access when collapses start happening.
For that we have an initial threashold of 90, which we will lower
until a collpase occurs.

Signed-off-by: Asier Gutierrez <gutierrez.asier@huawei-partners.com>
Co-developed-by: Anatoly Stepanov <stepanov.anatoly@huawei.com>
---
mm/damon/Kconfig | 7 +
mm/damon/Makefile | 1 +
mm/damon/hugepage.c (new) | 441 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 449 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mm/damon/Kconfig b/mm/damon/Kconfig
index 8c868f7035fc..2355aacb6d12 100644
--- a/mm/damon/Kconfig
+++ b/mm/damon/Kconfig
@@ -110,4 +110,11 @@ config DAMON_STAT_ENABLED_DEFAULT
Whether to enable DAMON_STAT by default. Users can disable it in
boot or runtime using its 'enabled' parameter.

+config DAMON_HOT_HUGEPAGE
+ bool "Build DAMON-based collapse of hot regions (DAMON_HOT_HUGEPAGES)"
+ depends on DAMON_VADDR
+ help
+ Collapse hot region into huge pages. Hot regions are determined by
+ DAMON-based sampling
+
endmenu
diff --git a/mm/damon/Makefile b/mm/damon/Makefile
index d8d6bf5f8bff..ac3afbc81cc7 100644
--- a/mm/damon/Makefile
+++ b/mm/damon/Makefile
@@ -7,3 +7,4 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_DAMON_SYSFS) += sysfs-common.o sysfs-schemes.o sysfs.o
obj-$(CONFIG_DAMON_RECLAIM) += modules-common.o reclaim.o
obj-$(CONFIG_DAMON_LRU_SORT) += modules-common.o lru_sort.o
obj-$(CONFIG_DAMON_STAT) += modules-common.o stat.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_DAMON_HOT_HUGEPAGE) += modules-common.o hugepage.o
diff --git a/mm/damon/hugepage.c b/mm/damon/hugepage.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..ccd31c48d391
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mm/damon/hugepage.c
@@ -0,0 +1,441 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2026 HUAWEI, Inc.
+ * https://www.huawei.com
+ *
+ * Author: Asier Gutierrez <gutierrez.asier@huawei-partners.com>
+ */
+
+#define pr_fmt(fmt) "damon-hugepage: " fmt
+
+#include <linux/damon.h>
+#include <linux/kstrtox.h>
+#include <linux/module.h>
+
+#include "modules-common.h"
+
+#ifdef MODULE_PARAM_PREFIX
+#undef MODULE_PARAM_PREFIX
+#endif
+#define MODULE_PARAM_PREFIX "damon_hugepage."
+
+#define MAX_MONITORED_PIDS 100
+#define HIGHEST_MIN_ACCESS 90
+#define HIGH_ACC_THRESHOLD 50
+#define MID_ACC_THRESHOLD 15
+#define LOW_ACC_THRESHOLD 2
+
+static struct task_struct *monitor_thread;
+
+struct mutex enable_disable_lock;
+
+/*
+ * Enable or disable DAMON_HUGEPAGE.
+ *
+ * You can enable DAMON_HUGEPAGE by setting the value of this parameter
+ * as ``Y``. Setting it as ``N`` disables DAMON_HOT_HUGEPAGE. Note that
+ * DAMON_HOT_HUGEPAGE could do no real monitoring and reclamation due to the
+ * watermarks-based activation condition. Refer to below descriptions for the
+ * watermarks parameter for this.
+ */
+static bool enabled __read_mostly;
+
+/*
+ * Make DAMON_HUGEPAGE reads the input parameters again, except ``enabled``.
+ *
+ * Input parameters that updated while DAMON_HUGEPAGE is running are not applied
+ * by default. Once this parameter is set as ``Y``, DAMON_HUGEPAGE reads values
+ * of parametrs except ``enabled`` again. Once the re-reading is done, this
+ * parameter is set as ``N``. If invalid parameters are found while the
+ * re-reading, DAMON_HUGEPAGE will be disabled.
+ */
+static bool commit_inputs __read_mostly;
+module_param(commit_inputs, bool, 0600);
+
+/*
+ * DAMON_HUGEPAGE monitoring period in microseconds.
+ * 5000000 = 5s
+ */
+static unsigned long monitor_period __read_mostly = 5000000;
+module_param(monitor_period, ulong, 0600);
+
+static long monitored_pids[MAX_MONITORED_PIDS];
+static int num_monitored_pids;
+module_param_array(monitored_pids, long, &num_monitored_pids, 0600);
+
+static struct damos_quota damon_hugepage_quota = {
+ /* use up to 10 ms time, reclaim up to 128 MiB per 1 sec by default */
+ .ms = 10,
+ .sz = 0,
+ .reset_interval = 1000,
+ /* Within the quota, page out older regions first. */
+ .weight_sz = 0,
+ .weight_nr_accesses = 0,
+ .weight_age = 1
+};
+DEFINE_DAMON_MODULES_DAMOS_TIME_QUOTA(damon_hugepage_quota);
+
+static struct damos_watermarks damon_hugepage_wmarks = {
+ .metric = DAMOS_WMARK_FREE_MEM_RATE,
+ .interval = 5000000, /* 5 seconds */
+ .high = 900, /* 90 percent */
+ .mid = 800, /* 80 percent */
+ .low = 50, /* 5 percent */
+};
+DEFINE_DAMON_MODULES_WMARKS_PARAMS(damon_hugepage_wmarks);
+
+static struct damon_attrs damon_hugepage_mon_attrs = {
+ .sample_interval = 5000, /* 5 ms */
+ .aggr_interval = 100000, /* 100 ms */
+ .ops_update_interval = 0,
+ .min_nr_regions = 10,
+ .max_nr_regions = 1000,
+};
+DEFINE_DAMON_MODULES_MON_ATTRS_PARAMS(damon_hugepage_mon_attrs);
+
+struct hugepage_task {
+ struct damon_ctx *ctx;
+ int pid;
+ struct damon_target *target;
+ struct damon_call_control call_control;
+ struct list_head list;
+};
+
+static struct damos *damon_hugepage_new_scheme(int min_access,
+ enum damos_action action)
+{
+ struct damos_access_pattern pattern = {
+ /* Find regions having PAGE_SIZE or larger size */
+ .min_sz_region = PMD_SIZE,
+ .max_sz_region = ULONG_MAX,
+ /* and not accessed at all */
+ .min_nr_accesses = min_access,
+ .max_nr_accesses = 100,
+ /* for min_age or more micro-seconds */
+ .min_age_region = 0,
+ .max_age_region = UINT_MAX,
+ };
+
+ return damon_new_scheme(
+ &pattern,
+ /* synchrounous partial collapse as soon as found */
+ action, 0,
+ /* under the quota. */
+ &damon_hugepage_quota,
+ /* (De)activate this according to the watermarks. */
+ &damon_hugepage_wmarks, NUMA_NO_NODE);
+}
+
+static int damon_hugepage_apply_parameters(
+ struct hugepage_task *monitored_task,
+ int min_access,
+ enum damos_action action)
+{
+ struct damos *scheme;
+ struct damon_ctx *param_ctx;
+ struct damon_target *param_target;
+ struct damos_filter *filter;
+ int err;
+ struct pid *spid;
+
+ err = damon_modules_new_ctx_target(&param_ctx, &param_target,
+ DAMON_OPS_VADDR);
+ if (err)
+ return err;
+
+ spid = find_get_pid(monitored_task->pid);
+ if (!spid)
+ return err;
+
+ param_target->pid = spid;
+
+ err = damon_set_attrs(param_ctx, &damon_hugepage_mon_attrs);
+ if (err)
+ goto out;
+
+ err = -ENOMEM;
+ scheme = damon_hugepage_new_scheme(min_access, action);
+ if (!scheme)
+ goto out;
+
+ damon_set_schemes(param_ctx, &scheme, 1);
+
+ filter = damos_new_filter(DAMOS_FILTER_TYPE_ANON, true, false);
+ if (!filter)
+ goto out;
+ damos_add_filter(scheme, filter);
+
+ err = damon_commit_ctx(monitored_task->ctx, param_ctx);
+out:
+ damon_destroy_ctx(param_ctx);
+ return err;
+}
+
+static int damon_hugepage_damon_call_fn(void *arg)
+{
+ struct hugepage_task *monitored_task = arg;
+ struct damon_ctx *ctx = monitored_task->ctx;
+ struct damos *scheme;
+ int err = 0;
+ int min_access;
+ struct damos_stat stat;
+
+ damon_for_each_scheme(scheme, ctx)
+ stat = scheme->stat;
+ scheme = list_first_entry(&ctx->schemes, struct damos, list);
+
+ if (ctx->passed_sample_intervals < scheme->next_apply_sis)
+ return err;
+
+ if (stat.nr_applied)
+ return err;
+
+ min_access = scheme->pattern.min_nr_accesses;
+
+ if (min_access > HIGH_ACC_THRESHOLD) {
+ min_access = min_access - 10;
+ err = damon_hugepage_apply_parameters(
+ monitored_task, min_access, DAMOS_COLLAPSE);
+ } else if (min_access > MID_ACC_THRESHOLD) {
+ min_access = min_access - 5;
+ err = damon_hugepage_apply_parameters(
+ monitored_task, min_access, DAMOS_COLLAPSE);
+ } else if (min_access > LOW_ACC_THRESHOLD) {
+ min_access = min_access - 1;
+ err = damon_hugepage_apply_parameters(
+ monitored_task, min_access, DAMOS_COLLAPSE);
+ }
+ return err;
+}
+
+static int damon_hugepage_init_task(struct hugepage_task *monitored_task)
+{
+ int err = 0;
+ struct damon_ctx *ctx = monitored_task->ctx;
+ struct damon_target *target = monitored_task->target;
+ struct pid *spid;
+
+ if (!ctx || !target)
+ damon_modules_new_ctx_target(&ctx, &target, DAMON_OPS_VADDR);
+
+ if (damon_is_running(ctx))
+ return 0;
+
+ spid = find_get_pid(monitored_task->pid);
+ if (!spid)
+ return err;
+
+ target->pid = spid;
+
+ monitored_task->call_control.fn = damon_hugepage_damon_call_fn;
+ monitored_task->call_control.repeat = true;
+ monitored_task->call_control.data = monitored_task;
+
+ struct damos *scheme = damon_hugepage_new_scheme(
+ HIGHEST_MIN_ACCESS, DAMOS_COLLAPSE);
+ if (!scheme)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+
+ damon_set_schemes(ctx, &scheme, 1);
+
+ monitored_task->ctx = ctx;
+ err = damon_start(&monitored_task->ctx, 1, false);
+ if (err)
+ return err;
+
+ return damon_call(monitored_task->ctx, &monitored_task->call_control);
+}
+
+static int add_monitored_task(int pid, struct list_head *task_monitor)
+{
+ struct hugepage_task *new_hugepage_task;
+ int err;
+
+ new_hugepage_task = kzalloc_obj(*new_hugepage_task);
+ if (!new_hugepage_task)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+
+ new_hugepage_task->pid = pid;
+ INIT_LIST_HEAD(&new_hugepage_task->list);
+ err = damon_hugepage_init_task(new_hugepage_task);
+ if (err)
+ return err;
+ list_add(&new_hugepage_task->list, task_monitor);
+ return 0;
+}
+
+static int damon_hugepage_handle_commit_inputs(
+ struct list_head *monitored_tasks)
+{
+ int i = 0;
+ int err = 0;
+ bool found;
+ struct hugepage_task *monitored_task, *tmp;
+
+ if (!commit_inputs)
+ return 0;
+
+ while (i < MAX_MONITORED_PIDS) {
+ if (!monitored_pids[i])
+ break;
+
+ found = false;
+
+ rcu_read_lock();
+ if (!find_vpid(monitored_pids[i])) {
+ rcu_read_unlock();
+ continue;
+ }
+
+ rcu_read_unlock();
+
+ list_for_each_entry_safe(monitored_task, tmp, monitored_tasks, list) {
+ if (monitored_task->pid == monitored_pids[i]) {
+ list_move(&monitored_task->list, monitored_tasks);
+ found = true;
+ break;
+ }
+ }
+ if (!found) {
+ err = add_monitored_task(monitored_pids[i], monitored_tasks);
+ /* Skip failed tasks */
+ if (err)
+ continue;
+ }
+ i++;
+ }
+
+ i = 0;
+ list_for_each_entry_safe(monitored_task, tmp, monitored_tasks, list) {
+ i++;
+ if (i <= num_monitored_pids)
+ continue;
+
+ err = damon_stop(&monitored_task->ctx, 1);
+ damon_destroy_ctx(monitored_task->ctx);
+ list_del(&monitored_task->list);
+ kfree(monitored_task);
+ }
+
+ commit_inputs = false;
+ return err;
+}
+
+static int damon_manager_monitor_thread(void *data)
+{
+ int err = 0;
+ int i;
+ struct hugepage_task *entry, *tmp;
+
+ LIST_HEAD(monitored_tasks);
+
+ for (i = 0; i < MAX_MONITORED_PIDS; i++) {
+ if (!monitored_pids[i])
+ break;
+
+ rcu_read_lock();
+ if (!find_vpid(monitored_pids[i])) {
+ rcu_read_unlock();
+ continue;
+ }
+ rcu_read_unlock();
+
+ add_monitored_task(monitored_pids[i], &monitored_tasks);
+ }
+
+
+ while (!kthread_should_stop()) {
+ schedule_timeout_idle(usecs_to_jiffies(monitor_period));
+ err = damon_hugepage_handle_commit_inputs(&monitored_tasks);
+ if (err)
+ break;
+ }
+
+ list_for_each_entry_safe(entry, tmp, &monitored_tasks, list) {
+ err = damon_stop(&entry->ctx, 1);
+ damon_destroy_ctx(entry->ctx);
+ }
+
+ for (int i = 0; i < MAX_MONITORED_PIDS;) {
+ monitored_pids[i] = 0;
+ i++;
+ }
+ return err;
+}
+
+static int damon_hugepage_start_monitor_thread(void)
+{
+ num_monitored_pids = 0;
+ monitor_thread = kthread_create(damon_manager_monitor_thread, NULL,
+ "damon_dynamic");
+
+ if (IS_ERR(monitor_thread))
+ return PTR_ERR(monitor_thread);
+
+ wake_up_process(monitor_thread);
+ return 0;
+}
+
+static int damon_hugepage_turn(bool on)
+{
+ int err = 0;
+
+ mutex_lock(&enable_disable_lock);
+ if (!on) {
+ if (monitor_thread) {
+ kthread_stop(monitor_thread);
+ monitor_thread = NULL;
+ }
+ goto out;
+ }
+ err = damon_hugepage_start_monitor_thread();
+out:
+ mutex_unlock(&enable_disable_lock);
+ return err;
+}
+
+static int damon_hugepage_enabled_store(const char *val,
+ const struct kernel_param *kp)
+{
+ bool is_enabled = enabled;
+ bool enable;
+ int err;
+
+ err = kstrtobool(val, &enable);
+ if (err)
+ return err;
+
+ if (is_enabled == enable)
+ return 0;
+
+ err = damon_hugepage_turn(enable);
+ if (err)
+ return err;
+
+ enabled = enable;
+ return err;
+}
+
+static const struct kernel_param_ops enabled_param_ops = {
+ .set = damon_hugepage_enabled_store,
+ .get = param_get_bool,
+};
+
+module_param_cb(enabled, &enabled_param_ops, &enabled, 0600);
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(enabled,
+ "Enable or disable DAMON_DYNAMIC_HUGEPAGES (default: disabled)");
+
+static int __init damon_hugepage_init(void)
+{
+ int err;
+
+ /* 'enabled' has set before this function, probably via command line */
+ if (enabled)
+ err = damon_hugepage_turn(true);
+
+ if (err && enabled)
+ enabled = false;
+ return err;
+}
+
+module_init(damon_hugepage_init);
--
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