Re: [BUG] DAMON sysfs: failed update clears tried_regions snapshot

From: SJ Park

Date: Thu Oct 15 2026 - 10:24:00 EST


Hi Avelin,

On Thu, 15 Oct 2026 07:22:38 -0400 Aveline Noir <jm5905938@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On mm-new commit ad9f2d463666, requesting
> update_schemes_tried_regions after stopping a kdamond returns
> -ECANCELED and clears the previous tried_regions snapshot. The final
> result collected before "off" is then lost.

Could you further share your use case that this behavior becomes a real
problem? Also, have you tried bisecting this to find from when this behavior
was introduced? If so, could you share the commit that introduced this
behavior?


THanks,
SJ

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