Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm/damon/core: preserve the caller's quota in damon_new_scheme()

[SJ Park]

On Wed, 23 Sep 2026 23:46:27 +0200 Karl Mehltretter <kmehltretter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 22, 2026 at 05:08:44AM +0100, SJ Park wrote:
> > To calrify my opinion more, "caller's quota" feels unclear to me.  I hope it to
> > be more clear that it means "the quota that is passed as a parameter to the
> > function".
> 
> I've made it explicit that this means the quota passed as a parameter
> to damon_new_scheme().
> 
> > > > 
> > > > damon_commit_ctx() first copies the running context into a temporary
> > > > context for validating the proposed parameters.
> > 
> > I'd prefer using the term, 'commit' instead of 'copies' for clarity.
> 
> Changed to "commit" for the context operation.
> 
> > Now I understand you added the comment for commit 60bd24f272d0.  I think Fixes:
> > should also be 60bd24f272d0.
> 
> Agreed. I checked the diff and earlier callers. That commit first passes
> the running context as the source. v2 uses it with a plain Cc: stable.
> 
> The LLM suggested the wrong tag, and I didn't notice it when checking it.
> 
> v2 is rebased on mm-new and passes all 46 KUnit tests on x86-64 and
> i386. I'll send it soon.

Thank you Karl, looking forward to the next version!


Thanks,
SJ

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