diff --git a/mm/damon/core.c b/mm/damon/core.c
index 018dd5ff8032..ca301abcb9ec 100644
--- a/mm/damon/core.c
+++ b/mm/damon/core.c
@@ -1865,6 +1865,8 @@ static int __damon_start(struct damon_ctx *ctx)
 	return err;
 }
 
+static int __damon_commit_ctx(struct damon_ctx *dst, struct damon_ctx *src);
+
 /**
  * damon_start() - Starts the monitorings for a given group of contexts.
  * @ctxs:	an array of the pointers for contexts to start monitoring
@@ -1886,8 +1888,16 @@ int damon_start(struct damon_ctx **ctxs, int nr_ctxs, bool exclusive)
 	int err = 0;
 
 	for (i = 0; i < nr_ctxs; i++) {
-		if (!is_power_of_2(ctxs[i]->min_region_sz))
-			return -EINVAL;
+		struct damon_ctx *test_ctx;
+
+		test_ctx = damon_new_ctx();
+		if (!test_ctx)
+			return -ENOMEM;
+
+		err = __damon_commit_ctx(test_ctx, ctxs[i]);
+		damon_destroy_ctx(test_ctx);
+		if (err)
+			return err;
 	}
 
 	mutex_lock(&damon_lock);