DAMOS filters do allow or reject elements of memory for given DAMOS scheme only if those match the filter criterias. For elements that don't match any DAMOS filter, 'allowing' is the default behavior. This makes allow-filters that don't have any reject-filter after them meaningless sources of overhead. The decision was made to keep the behavior consistent with that before the introduction of allow-filters. This, however, makes usage of DAMOS filters confusing and inefficient. There is an apparently more intuitive behavior for the case. If there is no filter at all or the last filter is a reject filter, allowing by default. Update the filtering logic to work in the way. Decide the default behavior as the opposite of the last isntalled filter. If it is an allow filter, reject by default. If it is a reject filter or no filter is installed at all, allow by default. Note that this is changing the old behavior. But the old behavior for the problematic filter combination was definitely confusing, inefficient and anyway useless. Also, the behavior has relatively recently introduced. It is difficult to anticipate any user that depends on the behavior. Hence this is not a user-breaking behavior change but an obvious improvement. Changes from RFC v1 (https://lore.kernel.org/20250220193509.36379-1-sj@xxxxxxxxxx) - Set default behavior on core layer filtering stage as allow if any ops layer filter exists. - Wordsmith commit messages - Rebase on latest mm-unstable SeongJae Park (9): mm/damon/core: introduce damos->ops_filters mm/damon/paddr: support ops_filters mm/damon/core: support committing ops_filters mm/damon/core: put ops-handled filters to damos->ops_filters mm/damon/paddr: support only damos->ops_filters mm/damon: add default allow/reject behavior fields to struct damos mm/damon/core: set damos_filter default allowance behavior based on installed filters mm/damon/paddr: respect ops_filters_default_reject Docs/mm/damon/design: update for changed filter-default behavior Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst | 10 ++-- include/linux/damon.h | 11 ++++ mm/damon/core.c | 90 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- mm/damon/paddr.c | 8 +-- 4 files changed, 105 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) base-commit: d5c41979a39f18ccd660b25eb79e805eb5442e18 -- 2.39.5
