On Thu, 30 Dec 2021 10:07:19 +0000 SeongJae Park <sj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> DAMON asks each monitoring target ('struct damon_target') to have one
> 'unsigned long' integer called 'id', which should be unique among the
> targets of same monitoring context. Meaning of it is, however, totally
> up to the monitoring primitives that registered to the monitoring
> context. For example, the virtual address spaces monitoring primitives
> treats the id as a 'struct pid' pointer.
>
> This makes the code flexible but ugly, not well-documented, and
> type-unsafe[1]. Also, identification of each target can be done via its
> index. For the reason, this patchset removes the concept and uses clear
> type definition.
Thanks. This doesn't appear to be urgent, so I'll park it until after 5.17-rc1.
