[RFC PATCH v2 06/10] mm/damon/core: add damon_merge_regions_of() debug_sanity check
From: SeongJae Park
Date: Sun Mar 01 2026 - 12:46:20 EST
damon_merge_regions_of() should be called only after aggregation is
finished and therefore each region's nr_accesses and nr_accesses_bp
match. There were bugs that broke the assumption, during development of
online DAMON parameter updates and monitoring results handling changes.
Add a sanity check for that under CONFIG_DAMON_DEBUG_SANITY.
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/damon/core.c | 15 +++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)
diff --git a/mm/damon/core.c b/mm/damon/core.c
index 8a3738a17cdd9..93d1577b1ae07 100644
--- a/mm/damon/core.c
+++ b/mm/damon/core.c
@@ -2505,6 +2505,20 @@ static void damon_merge_two_regions(struct damon_target *t,
damon_destroy_region(r, t);
}
+#ifdef CONFIG_DAMON_DEBUG_SANITY
+static void damon_verify_merge_regions_of(struct damon_region *r)
+{
+ WARN_ONCE(r->nr_accesses != r->nr_accesses_bp / 10000,
+ "nr_accesses (%u) != nr_accesses_bp (%u)\n",
+ r->nr_accesses, r->nr_accesses_bp);
+}
+#else
+static void damon_verify_merge_regions_of(struct damon_region *r)
+{
+}
+#endif
+
+
/*
* Merge adjacent regions having similar access frequencies
*
@@ -2518,6 +2532,7 @@ static void damon_merge_regions_of(struct damon_target *t, unsigned int thres,
struct damon_region *r, *prev = NULL, *next;
damon_for_each_region_safe(r, next, t) {
+ damon_verify_merge_regions_of(r);
if (abs(r->nr_accesses - r->last_nr_accesses) > thres)
r->age = 0;
else if ((r->nr_accesses == 0) != (r->last_nr_accesses == 0))
--
2.47.3