Re: [PATCH 4/4] mm/damon/vaddr: indicate the target is invalid when 'nr_regions' is zero

[SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>]

On Wed, 14 Sep 2022 12:02:05 +0800 Kaixu Xia <xiakaixu1987@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 11:11 PM SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 13 Sep 2022 17:11:27 +0800 xiakaixu1987@gmail.com wrote:
> >
> > > From: Kaixu Xia <kaixuxia@tencent.com>
> > >
> > > When 'init()' and 'update()' DAMON operations failed and the number
> > > of the damon_target regions is zero,
> >
> > Well, I think that could be a temporal failure.  In the case, later call of
> > 'update()' could success?
> >
> Yeah, the kdamond while() loop calls 'update()' periodically to fix this
> temporary failure. But for extreme scenarios that 'update()' continues to fail,
> we should have some ways to detect this case.

Even in the case, kdamond will do nothing but continuing the main loop while
sleeping sample_aggr interval (5ms by default) for each iteration, and calling
'update()' for every update interval (100ms by default).  Waste is waste, but I
don't think that's a real issue.  Further, continuous 'update()' failures mean
the process is in some weird state anyway, so I'd assume the process would be
finished soon.  kdamond will also finish as soon as the process finishes.
Users could also find the strange situation (nothing in the monitoring results)
and finish kdamond on their own.

Anything I'm missing?


Andrew, I found you merged this patch in mm-unstable.  Could you please hold it
until we finish this discussion?


Thanks,
SJ

> 
> Thanks,
> Kaixu
> >
> > Thanks,
> > SJ
> >
> > > the kdamond would do nothing
> > > to this monitoring target in this case. It makes no sense to run
> > > kdamond when all of monitoring targets have no regions. So add the
> > > judgement in 'target_valid()' operation to indicate the target is
> > > invalid when 'nr_regions' is zero.
> >
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Kaixu Xia <kaixuxia@tencent.com>
> > > ---
> > >  mm/damon/vaddr.c | 3 +++
> > >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/mm/damon/vaddr.c b/mm/damon/vaddr.c
> > > index 39ea48d9cc15..65ff98d49ec0 100644
> > > --- a/mm/damon/vaddr.c
> > > +++ b/mm/damon/vaddr.c
> > > @@ -598,6 +598,9 @@ static bool damon_va_target_valid(void *target)
> > >       struct damon_target *t = target;
> > >       struct task_struct *task;
> > >
> > > +     if (!damon_nr_regions(t))
> > > +             return false;
> > > +
> > >       task = damon_get_task_struct(t);
> > >       if (task) {
> > >               put_task_struct(task);
> > > --
> > > 2.27.0
>