[RFC PATCH 1/9] mm/damon/core: skip applying scheme if region split for quota fails

[SJ Park]

damos_apply_scheme() splits a region and apply the action to the
subregion if it is needed for not violating the quota.  The split
operation (damon_split_region_at()) could fail for allocation failure.
In the case, the quota could be violated.  From the user's perspective,
DAMOS becomes more aggressive than expected under the extreme situation.
Handle the failure.

The user impact is not critical.  The failure of damon_split_region_at()
is unlikely since it is arguably too small to fail.  Also DAMOS being
aggressive is limited to the single region.  Users can set
min_nr_regions to set the maximum size of each region.  If it is
reasonably set, the transient overhead shouldn't be critical.

The issue was discovered [1] by Sashiko.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/20260718171523.87547-1-sj@xxxxxxxxxx

Fixes: 2b8a248d5873 ("mm/damon/schemes: implement size quota for schemes application speed control")
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 5.16.x
Signed-off-by: SJ Park <sj@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 mm/damon/core.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/damon/core.c b/mm/damon/core.c
index 644daf5a16560..e2900d0c984c9 100644
--- a/mm/damon/core.c
+++ b/mm/damon/core.c
@@ -2613,7 +2613,8 @@ static void damos_apply_scheme(struct damon_ctx *c, struct damon_target *t,
 					c->min_region_sz);
 			if (!sz)
 				goto update_stat;
-			damon_split_region_at(t, r, sz);
+			if (damon_split_region_at(t, r, sz))
+				goto update_stat;
 		}
 		if (damos_core_filter_out(c, t, r, s))
 			return;
-- 
2.47.3