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Patch series "mm/damon/core: make passed_sample_intervals comparisons overflow-safe". DAMON accounts time using its own jiffies-like time counter, namely damon_ctx->passed_sample_intervals. The counter is incremented on each iteration of kdamond_fn() main loop, which sleeps at least one sample interval. Hence the name is like that. DAMON has time-periodic operations including monitoring results aggregation and DAMOS action application. DAMON sets the next time to do each of such operations in the passed_sample_intervals unit. And it does the operation when the counter becomes the same to or larger than the pre-set values, and update the next time for the operation. Note that the operation is done not only when the values exactly match but also when the time is passed, because the values can be updated for online-committed DAMON parameters. The counter is 'unsigned long' type, and the comparison is done using normal comparison operators. It is not safe from overflows. This can cause rare and limited but odd situations. Let's suppose there is an operation that should be executed every 20 sampling intervals, and the passed_sample_intervals value for next execution of the operation is ULONG_MAX - 3. Once the passed_sample_intervals reaches ULONG_MAX - 3, the operation will be executed, and the next time value for doing the operation becomes 17 (ULONG_MAX - 3 + 20), since overflow happens. In the next iteration of the kdamond_fn() main loop, passed_sample_intervals is larger than the next operation time value, so the operation will be executed again. It will continue executing the operation for each iteration, until the passed_sample_intervals also overflows. Note that this will not be common and problematic in the real world. The sampling interval, which takes for each passed_sample_intervals increment, is 5 ms by default. And it is usually [auto-]tuned for hundreds of milliseconds. That means it takes about 248 days or 4,971 days to have the overflow on 32 bit machines when the sampling interval is 5 ms and 100 ms, respectively (1<<32 * sampling_interval_in_seconds / 3600 / 24). On 64 bit machines, the numbers become 2924712086.77536 and 58494241735.5072 years. So the real user impact is negligible. But still this is better to be fixed as long as the fix is simple and efficient. Fix this by simply replacing the overflow-unsafe native comparison operators with the existing overflow-safe time comparison helpers. The first patch only cleans up the next DAMOS action application time setup for consistency and reduced code. The second and the third patches update DAMOS action application time setup and rest, respectively. This patch (of 3): There is a function for damos->next_apply_sis setup. But some places are open-coding it. Consistently use the helper. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260307194915.203169-2-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> |
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