diff --git a/mm/damon/sysfs.c b/mm/damon/sysfs.c
index b5fe036f7801..208bb639f50f 100644
--- a/mm/damon/sysfs.c
+++ b/mm/damon/sysfs.c
@@ -2051,7 +2051,7 @@ static int damon_sysfs_add_targets(struct damon_ctx *ctx,
 	int i, err;
 
 	/* Multiple physical address space monitoring targets makes no sense */
-	if (ctx->ops.id == DAMON_OPS_PADDR && sysfs_targets->nr > 1)
+	if (!damon_target_has_pid(ctx) && sysfs_targets->nr > 1)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
 	for (i = 0; i < sysfs_targets->nr; i++) {