[RFC PATCH v2 7/9] mm/damon/ops-common: use probe-weighted score when probe weights are set
From: Ravi Jonnalagadda
Date: Thu Sep 10 2026 - 13:39:18 EST
When probe weights are configured (damon_has_probe_weights()), use
damon_probe_hits_wsum() for the frequency subscore in damon_hot_score()
instead of damon_nr_accesses_mvsum(). This routes hardware event counts
from a perf-event probe into the tiering decision.
When no probe weights are set the frequency subscore comes from
nr_accesses_mvsum, so page-table-only monitoring scores from the
page-table access rate.
Export damon_has_probe_weights() so ops-common.c can call it without a
static dependency on core.c internals.
Guard against integer overflow: clamp the probe-weighted subscore to
DAMON_MAX_SUBSCORE via min_t after the mult_frac scaling so a large
weighted-hit sum cannot overflow the subscore range.
Signed-off-by: Ravi Jonnalagadda <ravis.opensrc@xxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/damon.h | 1 +
mm/damon/core.c | 2 +-
mm/damon/ops-common.c | 21 ++++++++++++++++++---
3 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/damon.h b/include/linux/damon.h
index 88a459a60b296..3147ce30951f5 100644
--- a/include/linux/damon.h
+++ b/include/linux/damon.h
@@ -1307,6 +1307,7 @@ unsigned char damon_probe_hits_mvsum(int probe_idx, struct damon_region *r,
struct damon_ctx *ctx);
unsigned int damon_probe_hits_wsum(struct damon_region *r, bool last, bool mv,
struct damon_ctx *ctx);
+bool damon_has_probe_weights(struct damon_ctx *c);
int damon_set_regions(struct damon_target *t, struct damon_addr_range *ranges,
unsigned int nr_ranges, unsigned long min_region_sz);
diff --git a/mm/damon/core.c b/mm/damon/core.c
index 850880f791c9e..6b3aa86386b76 100644
--- a/mm/damon/core.c
+++ b/mm/damon/core.c
@@ -391,7 +391,7 @@ static struct damon_probe *damon_nth_probe(int n, struct damon_ctx *ctx)
return NULL;
}
-static bool damon_has_probe_weights(struct damon_ctx *c)
+bool damon_has_probe_weights(struct damon_ctx *c)
{
struct damon_probe *p;
diff --git a/mm/damon/ops-common.c b/mm/damon/ops-common.c
index c36cc39cd2c70..3033a5c0ba690 100644
--- a/mm/damon/ops-common.c
+++ b/mm/damon/ops-common.c
@@ -170,9 +170,24 @@ int damon_hot_score(struct damon_ctx *c, struct damon_region *r,
unsigned int age_weight = s->quota.weight_age;
int hotness;
- freq_subscore = mult_frac(damon_nr_accesses_mvsum(r, c),
- DAMON_MAX_SUBSCORE,
- damon_nr_samples_per_aggr(&c->attrs));
+ if (damon_has_probe_weights(c)) {
+ unsigned int wsum = damon_probe_hits_wsum(r, false, true, c);
+
+ /*
+ * Route perf-event hardware event counts into the score.
+ * Clamp to DAMON_MAX_SUBSCORE so a large weighted-hit sum
+ * cannot overflow the subscore range.
+ */
+ freq_subscore = min_t(int,
+ mult_frac(wsum, DAMON_MAX_SUBSCORE,
+ /* +1 guards divide-by-zero: samples-per-aggr can be 0 */
+ damon_nr_samples_per_aggr(&c->attrs) + 1),
+ DAMON_MAX_SUBSCORE);
+ } else {
+ freq_subscore = mult_frac(damon_nr_accesses_mvsum(r, c),
+ DAMON_MAX_SUBSCORE,
+ damon_nr_samples_per_aggr(&c->attrs));
+ }
age_in_sec = (unsigned long)r->age * c->attrs.aggr_interval / 1000000;
if (age_in_sec)
--
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