[RFC PATCH v1.2 00/12] mm/damon: cleanup code, add test cases, and update guidances in docs

From: SJ Park

Date: Wed Jul 29 2026 - 10:27:15 EST


Misc cleanup, improvements and updates of code, test, and documents.

Patches 1-5 cleanup DAMON code. Patches 6-10 adds kunit and selftest
test cases for recently fixed bugs and a new feature. Patches 11 and 12
update guidelines for AI review and what document to read, on DAMON
documents.

Changes from RFC v1.1
- RFC v1.1: https://lore.kernel.org/20260729033751.131213-1-sj@xxxxxxxxxx
- Fix a typo: s/alingment/alignment/.
- Add damon probes parameter validation cleanup (patches 4 and 5).
Changes from RFC
- RFC: https://lore.kernel.org/20260728052811.192712-1-sj@xxxxxxxxxx
- Remove ctx parameter of __damon_va_init_regions().
- Fix damon_nr_samples_per_aggr() overflow kunit test.
- Rebase to the latest mm-new.

SJ Park (12):
mm/damon/core: use damon_nr_samples_per_aggr() for max merge threshold
mm/damon/core: remove debug messages
mm/damon/vaddr: remove a debug message
mm/damon/core: validate number of probes in valid_probe_params()
mm/damon/sysfs: remove probes number validation
mm/damon/tests/core-kunit: extend set_regions() test for error case
mm/damon/tests/core-kunit: test <=0 size damon_set_regions() inputs
mm/damon/tests/core-kunit: test overlapping ranges for set_regions()
mm/damon/tests/core-kunit: test damon_nr_samples_per_aggr()
selftests/damon/sysfs.sh: test hugepage_mem_bp quota goal
Docs/mm/damon/maintainer-profile: update AI review for Sashiko replies
Docs/ABI/damon: recommend subsystem doc instead of admin-guide

.../ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-damon | 2 +-
Documentation/mm/damon/maintainer-profile.rst | 19 ++----
mm/damon/core.c | 19 +++---
mm/damon/sysfs.c | 2 +-
mm/damon/tests/core-kunit.h | 65 ++++++++++++++++---
mm/damon/vaddr.c | 16 +----
tools/testing/selftests/damon/sysfs.sh | 1 +
7 files changed, 76 insertions(+), 48 deletions(-)


base-commit: a8aa6f3b608c8c9119a7978f5f4eb083c53ea56b
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