[PATCH v3 mm-unstable] mm/damon/core: keep the temporal tuner quota over an unmeasured PSI round

From: SJ Park

Date: Wed Sep 23 2026 - 01:52:59 EST


From: Karl Mehltretter <kmehltretter@xxxxxxxxx>

The patch in mm-unstable of subject "mm/damon/core: handle uninitialized
damos_quota_goal->last_psi_total" scores a PSI quota goal without a
previous sample as achieved. This leaves the consist tuner's input
unchanged, but the temporal tuner sets its quota to zero for an achieved
goal. A running scheme with a nonzero temporal quota therefore loses a
charge window after a quota-goal commit.

Use the effective quota to preserve the temporal tuner's previous
goal-achievement state during an unmeasured round, as SJ suggested [1].
Score the goal as achieved when the effective quota is zero and as not
achieved otherwise. A new scheme's initially zero quota stays zero, and
the consist tuner's behavior is unchanged.

Move the PSI current-value calculation and last_psi_total update into a
helper that takes the current PSI total. This lets a unit test cover the
unmeasured and measured rounds without depending on system memory
pressure.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/damon/20260916001311.101024-1-sj@xxxxxxxxxx/ [1]
Fixes: 2dbb60f789cb ("mm/damon/core: implement PSI metric DAMOS quota goal")
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 6.9.x
Cc: Lian Wang <lianux.mm@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Kunwu Chan <kunwu.chan@xxxxxxxxx>
Suggested-by: SJ Park <sj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Karl Mehltretter <kmehltretter@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: SJ Park <sj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: SJ Park <sj@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
This is a fixup of a patch [1] that is still in mm-unstable tree.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/20260902002725.108635-3-sj@xxxxxxxxxx

Changes from v2
- v2: https://lore.kernel.org/20260921020013.33105-1-kmehltretter@xxxxxxxxx
- Split out of the series for squashing into the broken patch.
- Collect R-b: from SJ.
- Update commit message to make clear this is a fixup of a patch in
mm-unstable.
Changes since v1
- v1: https://lore.kernel.org/20260915060937.3423-1-kmehltretter@xxxxxxxxx/
- Use the previous effective quota for the temporal decision, including
when it is zero. Keep resetting last_psi_total for new and updated
goals.
- Move the current-value calculation and last_psi_total update into a
helper. Test both tuners with explicit samples and check
last_psi_total after each call.

mm/damon/core.c | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++++-------
1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/damon/core.c b/mm/damon/core.c
index 4687b909d42c..733025b36745 100644
--- a/mm/damon/core.c
+++ b/mm/damon/core.c
@@ -2956,6 +2956,28 @@ static inline u64 damos_get_some_mem_psi_total(void)

#endif /* CONFIG_PSI */

+static void damos_set_psi_current_val(u64 now_psi_total,
+ struct damos_quota_goal *goal, struct damos *s)
+{
+ u64 last_psi_total = goal->last_psi_total;
+
+ goal->last_psi_total = now_psi_total;
+ if (last_psi_total != U64_MAX) {
+ goal->current_value = now_psi_total - last_psi_total;
+ return;
+ }
+ /* uninitialized last_psi_total; make no effect this round */
+ if (s->quota.goal_tuner == DAMOS_QUOTA_GOAL_TUNER_CONSIST) {
+ goal->current_value = goal->target_value;
+ return;
+ }
+ /* let temporal tuner show the same achievement as in the last round */
+ if (!s->quota.esz)
+ goal->current_value = goal->target_value;
+ else
+ goal->current_value = 0;
+}
+
#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
static bool invalid_mem_node(int nid)
{
@@ -3208,13 +3230,7 @@ static void damos_set_quota_goal_current_value(struct damon_ctx *c,
break;
case DAMOS_QUOTA_SOME_MEM_PSI_US:
now_psi_total = damos_get_some_mem_psi_total();
- /* uninitialized last_psi_total; make no effect this round */
- if (goal->last_psi_total == U64_MAX)
- goal->current_value = goal->target_value;
- else
- goal->current_value = now_psi_total -
- goal->last_psi_total;
- goal->last_psi_total = now_psi_total;
+ damos_set_psi_current_val(now_psi_total, goal, s);
break;
case DAMOS_QUOTA_NODE_MEM_USED_BP:
case DAMOS_QUOTA_NODE_MEM_FREE_BP:

base-commit: 4b811cf44e3dd87981f18631be832027385f7d4f
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2.47.3