The patch titled Subject: mm/damon/sysfs: change next_update_jiffies to a global variable has been added to the -mm mm-hotfixes-unstable branch. Its filename is mm-damon-sysfs-change-next_update_jiffies-to-a-global-variable.patch

This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches...

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------------------------------------------------------ From: Quanmin Yan yanquanmin1@huawei.com Subject: mm/damon/sysfs: change next_update_jiffies to a global variable Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2025 10:07:46 +0800

In DAMON's damon_sysfs_repeat_call_fn(), time_before() is used to compare the current jiffies with next_update_jiffies to determine whether to update the sysfs files at this moment.

On 32-bit systems, the kernel initializes jiffies to "-5 minutes" to make jiffies wrap bugs appear earlier. However, this causes time_before() in damon_sysfs_repeat_call_fn() to unexpectedly return true during the first 5 minutes after boot on 32-bit systems (see [1] for more explanation, which fixes another jiffies-related issue before). As a result, DAMON does not update sysfs files during that period.

There is also an issue unrelated to the system's word size[2]: if the user stops DAMON just after next_update_jiffies is updated and restarts it after 'refresh_ms' or a longer delay, next_update_jiffies will retain an older value, causing time_before() to return false and the update to happen earlier than expected.

Fix these issues by making next_update_jiffies a global variable and initializing it each time DAMON is started.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251030020746.967174-3-yanquanmin1@huawei.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250822025057.1740854-1-ekffu200098@gmail.com [1] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251029013038.66625-1-sj@kernel.org/ [2] Fixes: d809a7c64ba8 ("mm/damon/sysfs: implement refresh_ms file internal work") Suggested-by: SeongJae Park sj@kernel.org Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Quanmin Yan yanquanmin1@huawei.com Cc: Kefeng Wang wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com Cc: ze zuo zuoze1@huawei.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org ---

mm/damon/sysfs.c | 10 +++++++--- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/damon/sysfs.c~mm-damon-sysfs-change-next_update_jiffies-to-a-global-variable +++ a/mm/damon/sysfs.c @@ -1552,16 +1552,17 @@ static struct damon_ctx *damon_sysfs_bui return ctx; }

+static unsigned long damon_sysfs_next_update_jiffies; + static int damon_sysfs_repeat_call_fn(void *data) { struct damon_sysfs_kdamond *sysfs_kdamond = data; - static unsigned long next_update_jiffies;

if (!sysfs_kdamond->refresh_ms) return 0; - if (time_before(jiffies, next_update_jiffies)) + if (time_before(jiffies, damon_sysfs_next_update_jiffies)) return 0; - next_update_jiffies = jiffies + + damon_sysfs_next_update_jiffies = jiffies + msecs_to_jiffies(sysfs_kdamond->refresh_ms);

if (!mutex_trylock(&damon_sysfs_lock)) @@ -1607,6 +1608,9 @@ static int damon_sysfs_turn_damon_on(str } kdamond->damon_ctx = ctx;

+ damon_sysfs_next_update_jiffies = + jiffies + msecs_to_jiffies(kdamond->refresh_ms); + repeat_call_control->fn = damon_sysfs_repeat_call_fn; repeat_call_control->data = kdamond; repeat_call_control->repeat = true; _

Patches currently in -mm which might be from yanquanmin1@huawei.com are

mm-damon-stat-change-last_refresh_jiffies-to-a-global-variable.patch mm-damon-sysfs-change-next_update_jiffies-to-a-global-variable.patch mm-damon-add-a-min_sz_region-parameter-to-damon_set_region_biggest_system_ram_default.patch mm-damon-reclaim-use-min_sz_region-for-core-address-alignment-when-setting-regions.patch