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Patch series "mm/damon: fixes for the jiffies-related issues", v2.
On 32-bit systems, the kernel initializes jiffies to "-5 minutes" to make
jiffies wrap bugs appear earlier. However, this may cause the
time_before() series of functions to return unexpected values, resulting
in DAMON not functioning as intended. Meanwhile, similar issues exist in
some specific user operation scenarios.
This patchset addresses these issues. The first patch is about the
DAMON_STAT module, and the second patch is about the core layer's sysfs.
This patch (of 2):
In DAMON_STAT's damon_stat_damon_call_fn(), time_before_eq() is used to
avoid unnecessarily frequent stat update.
On 32-bit systems, the kernel initializes jiffies to "-5 minutes" to make
jiffies wrap bugs appear earlier. However, this causes time_before_eq()
in DAMON_STAT to unexpectedly return true during the first 5 minutes after
boot on 32-bit systems (see [1] for more explanation, which fixes another
jiffies-related issue before). As a result, DAMON_STAT does not update
any monitoring results during that period, which becomes more confusing
when DAMON_STAT_ENABLED_DEFAULT is enabled.
There is also an issue unrelated to the system's word size[2]: if the user
stops DAMON_STAT just after last_refresh_jiffies is updated and restarts
it after 5 seconds or a longer delay, last_refresh_jiffies will retain an
older value, causing time_before_eq() to return false and the update to
happen earlier than expected.
Fix these issues by making last_refresh_jiffies a global variable and
initializing it each time DAMON_STAT is started.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251030020746.967174-2-yanquanmin1@huawei.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250822025057.1740854-1-ekffu200098@gmail.com [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251028143250.50144-1-sj@kernel.org/ [2]
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| fs | ||
| include | ||
| init | ||
| io_uring | ||
| ipc | ||
| kernel | ||
| lib | ||
| LICENSES | ||
| mm | ||
| net | ||
| rust | ||
| samples | ||
| scripts | ||
| security | ||
| sound | ||
| tools | ||
| usr | ||
| virt | ||
| .clang-format | ||
| .clippy.toml | ||
| .cocciconfig | ||
| .editorconfig | ||
| .get_maintainer.ignore | ||
| .gitattributes | ||
| .gitignore | ||
| .mailmap | ||
| .pylintrc | ||
| .rustfmt.toml | ||
| COPYING | ||
| CREDITS | ||
| Kbuild | ||
| Kconfig | ||
| MAINTAINERS | ||
| Makefile | ||
| README | ||
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