[RFC PATCH 1/2] mm/damon/stat: add a parameter for reading kdamond pid

From: SeongJae Park

Date: Tue Apr 14 2026 - 00:51:29 EST


Knowing the pid of the kdamonds can help user-space management including
monitoring of DAMON's system resource consumption. To make it easier,
DAMON_SYSFS, DAMON_RECLAIM and DAMON_LRU_SORT provide the pid
information. DAMON_STAT is not providing it, though. Expose the pid of
DAMON_STAT kdamond via a new read-only module parameter, namely
kdamond_pid. This also makes DAMON modules usage more standardized,
because DAMON_RECLAIM and DAMON_LRU_SORT also provide the information
via their read-only parameters of the same name.

Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/damon/stat.c | 13 +++++++++++++
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mm/damon/stat.c b/mm/damon/stat.c
index 99ba346f9e325..21fa04d95eeac 100644
--- a/mm/damon/stat.c
+++ b/mm/damon/stat.c
@@ -44,6 +44,15 @@ module_param(aggr_interval_us, ulong, 0400);
MODULE_PARM_DESC(aggr_interval_us,
"Current tuned aggregation interval in microseconds");

+/*
+ * PID of the DAMON thread
+ *
+ * If DAMON_STAT is enabled, this becomes the PID of the worker thread.
+ * Else, -1.
+ */
+static int kdamond_pid __read_mostly = -1;
+module_param(kdamond_pid, int, 0400);
+
static struct damon_ctx *damon_stat_context;

static unsigned long damon_stat_last_refresh_jiffies;
@@ -260,6 +269,9 @@ static int damon_stat_start(void)
damon_stat_context = NULL;
return err;
}
+ kdamond_pid = damon_kdamond_pid(damon_stat_context);
+ if (kdamond_pid < 0)
+ return kdamond_pid;

damon_stat_last_refresh_jiffies = jiffies;
call_control.data = damon_stat_context;
@@ -269,6 +281,7 @@ static int damon_stat_start(void)
static void damon_stat_stop(void)
{
damon_stop(&damon_stat_context, 1);
+ kdamond_pid = -1;
damon_destroy_ctx(damon_stat_context);
damon_stat_context = NULL;
}
--
2.47.3