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mm-damon-reclaim-use-damon_kdamond_pid.patch removed from -mm tree

merged mm-stable Andrew Morton 1 participant 1 message Jan 27

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The quilt patch titled
Subject: mm/damon/reclaim: use damon_kdamond_pid()
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
mm-damon-reclaim-use-damon_kdamond_pid.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-stable branch of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: SeongJae Park <[email protected]>
Subject: mm/damon/reclaim: use damon_kdamond_pid()
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2026 07:20:44 -0800

DAMON_RECLAIM directly uses damon_ctx->kdamond field with manual synchronization using damon_ctx->kdamond_lock, to get the pid of the kdamond. Use a new dedicated function for the purpose, namely damon_kdamond_pid(), since that doesn't require manual and error-prone synchronization.

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 mm/damon/reclaim.c |    4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
mm/damon/reclaim.c renamed from mm/damon/reclaim.c~mm-damon-reclaim-use-damon_kdamond_pid +3 -1
@@ -307,7 +307,9 @@ static int damon_reclaim_turn(bool on)
 	err = damon_start(&ctx, 1, true);
 	if (err)
 		return err;
-	kdamond_pid = ctx->kdamond->pid;
+	kdamond_pid = damon_kdamond_pid(ctx);
+	if (kdamond_pid < 0)
+		return kdamond_pid;
 	return damon_call(ctx, &call_control);
 }
 

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Patches currently in -mm which might be from [email protected] are

selftests-damon-sysfs_memcg_path_leaksh-use-kmemleak.patch selftests-damon-wss_estimation-test-for-up-to-160-mib-working-set-size.patch selftests-damon-access_memory-add-repeat-mode.patch selftests-damon-wss_estimation-ensure-number-of-collected-wss.patch selftests-damon-wss_estimation-deduplicate-failed-samples-output.patch mm-damon-remove-damon_operations-cleanup.patch mm-damon-core-cleanup-targets-and-regions-at-once-on-kdamond-termination.patch mm-damon-core-cancel-damos_walk-before-damon_ctx-kdamond-reset.patch mm-damon-core-process-damon_call_control-requests-on-a-local-list.patch mm-damon-document-damon_call_control-dealloc_on_cancel-repeat-behavior.patch mm-damon-core-rename-damos_filter_out-to-damos_core_filter_out.patch mm-damon-rename-damon_min_region-to-damon_min_region_sz.patch mm-damon-rename-min_sz_region-of-damon_ctx-to-min_region_sz.patch docs-mm-damon-index-simplify-the-intro.patch docs-mm-damon-design-link-repology-instead-of-fedora-package.patch docs-mm-damon-design-document-damon-sample-modules.patch docs-mm-damon-design-add-reference-to-damon_stat-usage.patch docs-admin-guide-mm-damon-usage-introduce-damon-modules-at-the-beginning.patch docs-admin-guide-mm-damon-usage-update-stats-update-process-for-refresh_ms.patch docs-mm-damon-maintainer-profile-fix-wrong-maitnainers-section-name.patch docs-mm-damon-maintainer-profile-remove-damon-tests-perf-suggestion.patch maple_tree-start-using-maple-copy-node-for-destination-fix.patch