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Commit 70e92748 authored by SeongJae Park's avatar SeongJae Park Committed by Linus Torvalds
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mm/damon/core: fix fake load reports due to uninterruptible sleeps

Because DAMON sleeps in uninterruptible mode, /proc/loadavg reports fake
load while DAMON is turned on, though it is doing nothing.  This can
confuse users[1].  To avoid the case, this commit makes DAMON sleeps in
idle mode.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/11868371.O9o76ZdvQC@natalenko.name/

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211126145015.15862-3-sj@kernel.org


Fixes: 2224d848 ("mm: introduce Data Access MONitor (DAMON)")
Reported-by: default avatarOleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Tested-by: default avatarOleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent e4779015
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