linux-kernel - [RFC PATCH 03/11] mm/damon/reclaim: add a parameter called skip_anon for avoiding anonymous pages reclamation

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Date:   Thu, 24 Nov 2022 21:21:06 +0000
From:   SeongJae Park <sj@...nel.org>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     damon@...ts.linux.dev, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, SeongJae Park <sj@...nel.org>
Subject: [RFC PATCH 03/11] mm/damon/reclaim: add a parameter called skip_anon for avoiding anonymous pages reclamation

In some cases, for example if users have confidence at anonymous pages
management or the swap device is too slow, users would want to avoid
DAMON_RECLAIM swapping the anonymous pages out.  For such case, add yet
another DAMON_RECLAIM parameter, namely 'skip_anon'.  When it is set as
'Y', DAMON_RECLAIM will avoid reclaiming anonymous pages using a DAMOS
filter.

Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@...nel.org>
---
 mm/damon/reclaim.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mm/damon/reclaim.c b/mm/damon/reclaim.c
index e82631f39481..648d2a85523a 100644
--- a/mm/damon/reclaim.c
+++ b/mm/damon/reclaim.c
@@ -98,6 +98,15 @@ module_param(monitor_region_start, ulong, 0600);
 static unsigned long monitor_region_end __read_mostly;
 module_param(monitor_region_end, ulong, 0600);
 
+/*
+ * Skip anonymous pages reclamation.
+ *
+ * If this parameter is set as ``Y``, DAMON_RECLAIM does not reclaim anonymous
+ * pages.  By default, ``N``.
+ */
+static bool skip_anon __read_mostly;
+module_param(skip_anon, bool, 0600);
+
 /*
  * PID of the DAMON thread
  *
@@ -142,6 +151,7 @@ static struct damos *damon_reclaim_new_scheme(void)
 static int damon_reclaim_apply_parameters(void)
 {
 	struct damos *scheme;
+	struct damos_filter *filter;
 	int err = 0;
 
 	err = damon_set_attrs(ctx, &damon_reclaim_mon_attrs);
@@ -152,6 +162,15 @@ static int damon_reclaim_apply_parameters(void)
 	scheme = damon_reclaim_new_scheme();
 	if (!scheme)
 		return -ENOMEM;
+	if (skip_anon) {
+		filter = damos_new_filter(DAMOS_FILTER_TYPE_ANON, true);
+		if (!filter) {
+			/* Will be freed by next 'damon_set_schemes()' below */
+			damon_destroy_scheme(scheme);
+			return -ENOMEM;
+		}
+		damos_add_filter(scheme, filter);
+	}
 	damon_set_schemes(ctx, &scheme, 1);
 
 	return damon_set_region_biggest_system_ram_default(target,
-- 
2.25.1