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commit 310d6c15e9104c99d5d9d0ff8e5383a79da7d5e6 upstream. DAMON keeps the number of regions under max_nr_regions by skipping regions split operations when doing so can make the number higher than the limit. It works well for preventing violation of the limit. But, if somehow the violation happens, it cannot recovery well depending on the situation. In detail, if the real number of regions having different access pattern is higher than the limit, the mechanism cannot reduce the number below the limit. In such a case, the system could suffer from high monitoring overhead of DAMON. The violation can actually happen. For an example, the user could reduce max_nr_regions while DAMON is running, to be lower than the current number of regions. Fix the problem by repeating the merge operations with increasing aggressiveness in kdamond_merge_regions() for the case, until the limit is met. [sj@kernel.org: increase regions merge aggressiveness while respecting min_nr_regions] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240626164753.46270-1-sj@kernel.org [sj@kernel.org: ensure max threshold attempt for max_nr_regions violation] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240627163153.75969-1-sj@kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240624175814.89611-1-sj@kernel.org Fixes: b9a6ac4e4ede ("mm/damon: adaptively adjust regions") Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [5.15+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> (cherry picked from commit 310d6c15e9104c99d5d9d0ff8e5383a79da7d5e6) Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> [Remove use of unexisting damon_ctx->attrs field] Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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