[PATCH] mm/damon: prevent activated scheme from sleeping by deactivated schemes

[PATCH] mm/damon: prevent activated scheme from sleeping by deactivated schemes

[Jonghyeon Kim]

In the DAMON, the minimum wait time of the schemes decides whether the
kernel wakes up 'kdamon_fn()'. But since the minimum wait time is
initialized to zero, there are corner cases against the original objective.

For example, if we have several schemes for one target, and if the wait
time of the first scheme is zero, the minimum wait time will set zero,
which means 'kdamond_fn()' should wake up to apply this scheme. However,
in the following scheme, wait time can be set to non-zero. Thus, the
mininum wait time will be set to non-zero, which can cause sleeping this
interval for 'kdamon_fn()' due to one deactivated last scheme.

This commit prevents making DAMON monitoring inactive state due to other
deactivated schemes.

Signed-off-by: Jonghyeon Kim <tome01@ajou.ac.kr>
---
 mm/damon/core.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/damon/core.c b/mm/damon/core.c
index c1e0fed4e877..5ce8d7c867f0 100644
--- a/mm/damon/core.c
+++ b/mm/damon/core.c
@@ -1019,12 +1019,15 @@ static int kdamond_wait_activation(struct damon_ctx *ctx)
 	struct damos *s;
 	unsigned long wait_time;
 	unsigned long min_wait_time = 0;
+	bool init_wait_time = false;
 
 	while (!kdamond_need_stop(ctx)) {
 		damon_for_each_scheme(s, ctx) {
 			wait_time = damos_wmark_wait_us(s);
-			if (!min_wait_time || wait_time < min_wait_time)
+			if (!init_wait_time || wait_time < min_wait_time) {
+				init_wait_time = true;
 				min_wait_time = wait_time;
+			}
 		}
 		if (!min_wait_time)
 			return 0;
-- 
2.17.1

Re: [PATCH] mm/damon: prevent activated scheme from sleeping by deactivated schemes

[sj]

Hi Jonghyeon,

On Wed, 30 Mar 2022 19:53:02 +0900 Jonghyeon Kim <tome01@ajou.ac.kr> wrote:

> In the DAMON, the minimum wait time of the schemes decides whether the
> kernel wakes up 'kdamon_fn()'. But since the minimum wait time is
> initialized to zero, there are corner cases against the original objective.
> 
> For example, if we have several schemes for one target, and if the wait
> time of the first scheme is zero, the minimum wait time will set zero,
> which means 'kdamond_fn()' should wake up to apply this scheme. However,
> in the following scheme, wait time can be set to non-zero. Thus, the
> mininum wait time will be set to non-zero, which can cause sleeping this
> interval for 'kdamon_fn()' due to one deactivated last scheme.

Good catch, thanks!

> 
> This commit prevents making DAMON monitoring inactive state due to other
> deactivated schemes.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jonghyeon Kim <tome01@ajou.ac.kr>

Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>


Thanks,
SJ

> ---
>  mm/damon/core.c | 5 ++++-
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/damon/core.c b/mm/damon/core.c
> index c1e0fed4e877..5ce8d7c867f0 100644
> --- a/mm/damon/core.c
> +++ b/mm/damon/core.c
> @@ -1019,12 +1019,15 @@ static int kdamond_wait_activation(struct damon_ctx *ctx)
>  	struct damos *s;
>  	unsigned long wait_time;
>  	unsigned long min_wait_time = 0;
> +	bool init_wait_time = false;
>  
>  	while (!kdamond_need_stop(ctx)) {
>  		damon_for_each_scheme(s, ctx) {
>  			wait_time = damos_wmark_wait_us(s);
> -			if (!min_wait_time || wait_time < min_wait_time)
> +			if (!init_wait_time || wait_time < min_wait_time) {
> +				init_wait_time = true;
>  				min_wait_time = wait_time;
> +			}
>  		}
>  		if (!min_wait_time)
>  			return 0;
> -- 
> 2.17.1
>