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mm/damon/core: fix fake load reports due to uninterruptible sleeps
authorSeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Fri, 10 Dec 2021 22:46:25 +0000 (14:46 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Sat, 11 Dec 2021 01:10:55 +0000 (17:10 -0800)
commit70e9274805fccfd175d0431a947bfd11ee7df40e
tree9f151d5be10357c1287d79fe8ef2456d5cad2681
parente4779015fd5d2fb8390c258268addff24d6077c7
mm/damon/core: fix fake load reports due to uninterruptible sleeps

Because DAMON sleeps in uninterruptible mode, /proc/loadavg reports fake
load while DAMON is turned on, though it is doing nothing.  This can
confuse users[1].  To avoid the case, this commit makes DAMON sleeps in
idle mode.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/11868371.O9o76ZdvQC@natalenko.name/

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211126145015.15862-3-sj@kernel.org
Fixes: 2224d8485492 ("mm: introduce Data Access MONitor (DAMON)")
Reported-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name>
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/damon/core.c