[PATCH 4/9] mm/damon/stat: avoid 32-bit overflow in idle percentiles

From: SJ Park

Date: Mon Nov 02 2026 - 13:58:02 EST


From: Aveline Noir <jm5905938@xxxxxxxxx>

On 32-bit, accounted_bytes * 100 can wrap before division by total_sz.
Some entries in memory_idle_ms_percentiles then keep their old values
instead of being updated.

For example, a 256 MiB i386 QEMU guest reported p0=19200 ms, but p50 and
p100 were both zero. The issue was also shared with another mail [1].

Cast accounted_bytes to u64 before multiplying and use div64_ul() for
the division. Compute the percentage once per region.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CANOyQmHad1vamnZT12M5yPrJ69==Pt1U0+MGw6u0MuNtr-DRCw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/179207592479.3.11595453180868898703@xxxxxxxxx
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Aveline Noir <jm5905938@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: SJ Park <sj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: SJ Park <sj@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Changes from v1
- v1: https://lore.kernel.org/179207592479.3.11595453180868898703@xxxxxxxxx
- Collect R-b: from SJ.
- Rebase to latest mm-new.

mm/damon/stat.c | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/damon/stat.c b/mm/damon/stat.c
index b05b68f73e10d..eccd372810d04 100644
--- a/mm/damon/stat.c
+++ b/mm/damon/stat.c
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ static void damon_stat_set_idletime_percentiles(struct damon_ctx *c)
{
struct damon_region **sorted_regions, *region;
int nr_regions;
- unsigned long total_sz, accounted_bytes = 0;
+ unsigned long total_sz, accounted_bytes = 0, percentile;
int err, i, next_percentile = 0;

err = damon_stat_sort_regions(c, &sorted_regions, &nr_regions,
@@ -124,7 +124,8 @@ static void damon_stat_set_idletime_percentiles(struct damon_ctx *c)
for (i = 0; i < nr_regions; i++) {
region = sorted_regions[i];
accounted_bytes += region->ar.end - region->ar.start;
- while (next_percentile <= accounted_bytes * 100 / total_sz)
+ percentile = div64_ul((u64)accounted_bytes * 100, total_sz);
+ while (next_percentile <= percentile)
memory_idle_ms_percentiles[next_percentile++] =
damon_stat_idletime(region) *
(long)c->attrs.aggr_interval / USEC_PER_MSEC;
--
2.47.3