From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-alma10-1.taild15c8.ts.net [100.103.45.18]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9E720438007; Mon, 13 Jul 2026 13:58:47 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=100.103.45.18 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1783951129; cv=none; b=E6DXqK+D6L1W86Vak/JeFR8lQq07QMH0Hco5uW/Xwzcz/2Zm5pVCFKMyCbbmUsOyymiW45cTfPVD3wPywqG5+yD6UoyBowuMhz/WKqahK063OJxU+eLCfQKux3/WXf39RCcWOg8Yt7axN9ouEgOe5M4eTC3zver4aSPUJuz0PDc= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1783951129; c=relaxed/simple; bh=5ScejZ7WR20mP7M32rQjyj8bSoc3hvLkckL0qcqy7ww=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:References: MIME-Version; b=Rj2uGeA0S8ZDCbZPwbhraYqmxKnJK34LbJSdOPIZrt8Nc8kVZ6lXssvu4aNHRps7IAwS3SFFBVwNYHj0YRGDia2qVR3YShLEfzm5wLfVh6AHise+WyNGCWxg0+7zbAcETBmTSjShM1S+ClAsUFN/i20cnDMdR3BwsqGWii8KEw4= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=K198PuNm; arc=none smtp.client-ip=100.103.45.18 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="K198PuNm" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 513471F000E9; Mon, 13 Jul 2026 13:58:47 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=kernel.org; s=k20260515; t=1783951127; bh=MTFa+hpzXfcfyF1zP3rvNz2Fhu2Cffg36gE6sioOaYQ=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:In-Reply-To:References; b=K198PuNm525azO9JOEGv+kYtKZf9GL5saEoMnfwLfy+QoVvf3M61SFFj9Ca/kvdOi VNY6nNIHsGF9lg6m6lqNuukfbHXvnSjaHO9YU6+vcHqg9ZdMcecBXajrDGxgE/s2g4 l0Wt/AKMPXEfe93V9qTx55JGD7KTaF8fpcH+sjIBHom4GIVw4m0pnTJMdiz9Tu3W3n gTdjeVBMURLeaBsAeoG7+hfOfpXTA/PkLpa40PYH/h1vpDWwT4A2sPxsSgny4eCYQE iR6FlfA4UqD/vJnw7VcrrLV9Dr82Gl6cOq7kSKZwgg8bJwCf+62WBbXPZgrqMDDbW1 rPBXT5uQWgmYA== From: SJ Park To: Cc: SJ Park , stable@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , damon@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org Subject: [RFC PATCH v1.2 4/5] mm/damon/paddr: drop last same folio access check reuse optimization Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2026 06:58:35 -0700 Message-ID: <20260713135838.32730-5-sj@kernel.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.47.3 In-Reply-To: <20260713135838.32730-1-sj@kernel.org> References: <20260713135838.32730-1-sj@kernel.org> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: damon@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit It can race when multiple kdamonds are being used. The problem from the race is doubtful, but the gain from the optimization is also doubtful. Simply drop the optimization in favor of code simplicity. The user impact is doubtfully trivial. After all, this kind of interference can happen only by intentional user setup. Even if it happens, it will be rare, and the consequence is degradation of the best-effort monitoring results. No critical consequences like kernel panic or memory corruption happen. The race was discovered [1] by Sashiko. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/20260621204050.10993-1-sj@kernel.org Fixes: a28397beb55b ("mm/damon: implement primitives for physical address space monitoring") Cc: # 5.16.x Signed-off-by: SJ Park --- mm/damon/paddr.c | 20 ++++---------------- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/damon/paddr.c b/mm/damon/paddr.c index b85f88a7a38f4..e4f98d67461f5 100644 --- a/mm/damon/paddr.c +++ b/mm/damon/paddr.c @@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ static void damon_pa_prepare_access_checks(struct damon_ctx *ctx) } } -static bool damon_pa_young(phys_addr_t paddr, unsigned long *folio_sz) +static bool damon_pa_young(phys_addr_t paddr) { struct folio *folio = damon_get_folio(PHYS_PFN(paddr)); bool accessed; @@ -74,7 +74,6 @@ static bool damon_pa_young(phys_addr_t paddr, unsigned long *folio_sz) return false; accessed = damon_folio_young(folio); - *folio_sz = folio_size(folio); folio_put(folio); return accessed; } @@ -82,23 +81,12 @@ static bool damon_pa_young(phys_addr_t paddr, unsigned long *folio_sz) static void __damon_pa_check_access(struct damon_region *r, unsigned long addr_unit) { - static phys_addr_t last_addr; - static unsigned long last_folio_sz = PAGE_SIZE; - static bool last_accessed; + bool accessed; phys_addr_t sampling_addr = damon_pa_phys_addr( r->sampling_addr, addr_unit); - /* If the region is in the last checked page, reuse the result */ - if (ALIGN_DOWN(last_addr, last_folio_sz) == - ALIGN_DOWN(sampling_addr, last_folio_sz)) { - damon_update_region_access_rate(r, last_accessed); - return; - } - - last_accessed = damon_pa_young(sampling_addr, &last_folio_sz); - damon_update_region_access_rate(r, last_accessed); - - last_addr = sampling_addr; + accessed = damon_pa_young(sampling_addr); + damon_update_region_access_rate(r, accessed); } static unsigned int damon_pa_check_accesses(struct damon_ctx *ctx) -- 2.47.3