From: Donggeun Yoo <donggeunyoo.kernel@gmail.com>
To: SJ Park <sj@kernel.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: damon@lists.linux.dev, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, donggeunyoo.kernel@gmail.com,
David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>,
Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>,
"Liam R. Howlett" <liam@infradead.org>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>,
Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>,
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 3/3] Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: document the temporal tuner's quota limit
Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2026 11:31:11 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260920023111.2466265-4-donggeunyoo.kernel@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260920023111.2466265-1-donggeunyoo.kernel@gmail.com>
The temporal goal tuner converts the size quota into basis points in an
unsigned long, so a quotas/bytes above ULONG_MAX / 10000 does not fit,
and is handled as if no size quota were set. On 32-bit that is 429496
bytes, well below the "echo $((1024*1024*1024)) > quotas/bytes" this
document instructs. addr_unit does not raise the limit, though a larger
unit does make it harder to reach.
Note both in the goal_tuner description.
Signed-off-by: Donggeun Yoo <donggeunyoo.kernel@gmail.com>
---
Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst
index ba47255448564..ea7443b307826 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst
@@ -455,6 +455,13 @@ the background design of the feature and the name of the selectable algorithms.
Refer to :ref:`goals directory <sysfs_schemes_quota_goals>` for the goals
setup.
+The ``temporal`` algorithm converts the size quota into basis points, so it
+cannot represent a ``bytes`` value larger than 429496 on 32-bit kernels, or
+1844674407370955 on 64-bit ones. Larger values are handled as if no size
+quota were set. :ref:`addr_unit <damon_design_addr_unit>` does not raise the
+limit, but it does make the limit harder to reach: with a larger unit, the
+same amount of memory is written to ``bytes`` as a smaller number.
+
You can set the action-failed memory quota charging ratio by writing the
numerator and the denominator for the ratio to ``fail_charge_num`` and
``fail_charge_denom`` files, respectively. Reading those files will return the
--
2.53.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-20 2:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-20 2:31 [PATCH v2 0/3] mm/damon: fix the temporal goal tuner's size quota conversion Donggeun Yoo
2026-09-20 2:31 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] mm/damon/core: prevent size quota overflow in the temporal goal tuner Donggeun Yoo
2026-09-20 10:37 ` SJ Park
2026-09-20 12:24 ` Donggeun Yoo
2026-09-20 12:39 ` SJ Park
2026-09-20 13:12 ` Donggeun Yoo
2026-09-20 13:15 ` SJ Park
2026-09-20 2:31 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] mm/damon/tests/core-kunit: test the temporal tuner's size quota conversion Donggeun Yoo
2026-09-20 10:40 ` SJ Park
2026-09-20 12:24 ` Donggeun Yoo
2026-09-20 2:31 ` Donggeun Yoo [this message]
2026-09-20 10:49 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: document the temporal tuner's quota limit SJ Park
2026-09-20 12:24 ` Donggeun Yoo
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