Re: [PATCH] mm/damon: Use set_huge_pte_at() to make huge pte old

From: Muchun Song
Date: Tue Jun 21 2022 - 23:09:37 EST


On Mon, Jun 20, 2022 at 10:34:42AM +0800, Baolin Wang wrote:
> The huge_ptep_set_access_flags() can not make the huge pte old according
> to the discussion [1], that means we will always mornitor the young state
> of the hugetlb though we stopped accessing the hugetlb, as a result DAMON
> will get inaccurate accessing statistics.
>
> So changing to use set_huge_pte_at() to make the huge pte old to fix this
> issue.
>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/Yqy97gXI4Nqb7dYo@xxxxxxx/
>
> Fixes: 49f4203aae06 ("mm/damon: add access checking for hugetlb pages")
> Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

The changes make sense to me.

Reviewed-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>