Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

Merge more updates from Andrew Morton:
 "147 patches, based on 7d2a07b769330c34b4deabeed939325c77a7ec2f.

  Subsystems affected by this patch series: mm (memory-hotplug, rmap,
  ioremap, highmem, cleanups, secretmem, kfence, damon, and vmscan),
  alpha, percpu, procfs, misc, core-kernel, MAINTAINERS, lib,
  checkpatch, epoll, init, nilfs2, coredump, fork, pids, criu, kconfig,
  selftests, ipc, and scripts"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (94 commits)
  scripts: check_extable: fix typo in user error message
  mm/workingset: correct kernel-doc notations
  ipc: replace costly bailout check in sysvipc_find_ipc()
  selftests/memfd: remove unused variable
  Kconfig.debug: drop selecting non-existing HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH
  configs: remove the obsolete CONFIG_INPUT_POLLDEV
  prctl: allow to setup brk for et_dyn executables
  pid: cleanup the stale comment mentioning pidmap_init().
  kernel/fork.c: unexport get_{mm,task}_exe_file
  coredump: fix memleak in dump_vma_snapshot()
  fs/coredump.c: log if a core dump is aborted due to changed file permissions
  nilfs2: use refcount_dec_and_lock() to fix potential UAF
  nilfs2: fix memory leak in nilfs_sysfs_delete_snapshot_group
  nilfs2: fix memory leak in nilfs_sysfs_create_snapshot_group
  nilfs2: fix memory leak in nilfs_sysfs_delete_##name##_group
  nilfs2: fix memory leak in nilfs_sysfs_create_##name##_group
  nilfs2: fix NULL pointer in nilfs_##name##_attr_release
  nilfs2: fix memory leak in nilfs_sysfs_create_device_group
  trap: cleanup trap_init()
  init: move usermodehelper_enable() to populate_rootfs()
  ...

31 files changed, 3227 insertions, 158 deletions

diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig
index 40a9bfcd5062..d16ba9249bc5 100644
--- a/mm/Kconfig
+++ b/mm/Kconfig
@@ -96,9 +96,6 @@ config HAVE_FAST_GUP
 	depends on MMU
 	bool
 
-config HOLES_IN_ZONE
-	bool
-
 # Don't discard allocated memory used to track "memory" and "reserved" memblocks
 # after early boot, so it can still be used to test for validity of memory.
 # Also, memblocks are updated with memory hot(un)plug.
@@ -742,10 +739,18 @@ config DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT
 	  lifetime of the system until these kthreads finish the
 	  initialisation.
 
+config PAGE_IDLE_FLAG
+	bool
+	select PAGE_EXTENSION if !64BIT
+	help
+	  This adds PG_idle and PG_young flags to 'struct page'.  PTE Accessed
+	  bit writers can set the state of the bit in the flags so that PTE
+	  Accessed bit readers may avoid disturbance.
+
 config IDLE_PAGE_TRACKING
 	bool "Enable idle page tracking"
 	depends on SYSFS && MMU
-	select PAGE_EXTENSION if !64BIT
+	select PAGE_IDLE_FLAG
 	help
 	  This feature allows to estimate the amount of user pages that have
 	  not been touched during a given period of time. This information can
@@ -889,4 +894,6 @@ config IO_MAPPING
 config SECRETMEM
 	def_bool ARCH_HAS_SET_DIRECT_MAP && !EMBEDDED
 
+source "mm/damon/Kconfig"
+
 endmenu
diff --git a/mm/Makefile b/mm/Makefile
index e3436741d539..fc60a40ce954 100644
--- a/mm/Makefile
+++ b/mm/Makefile
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ mmu-y			:= nommu.o
 mmu-$(CONFIG_MMU)	:= highmem.o memory.o mincore.o \
 			   mlock.o mmap.o mmu_gather.o mprotect.o mremap.o \
 			   msync.o page_vma_mapped.o pagewalk.o \
-			   pgtable-generic.o rmap.o vmalloc.o ioremap.o
+			   pgtable-generic.o rmap.o vmalloc.o
 
 
 ifdef CONFIG_CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH
@@ -118,6 +118,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_CMA_SYSFS) += cma_sysfs.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_USERFAULTFD) += userfaultfd.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_IDLE_PAGE_TRACKING) += page_idle.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGE_REF) += debug_page_ref.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_DAMON) += damon/
 obj-$(CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY) += usercopy.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_PERCPU_STATS) += percpu-stats.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_ZONE_DEVICE) += memremap.o
@@ -128,3 +129,4 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_PTDUMP_CORE) += ptdump.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_PAGE_REPORTING) += page_reporting.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_IO_MAPPING) += io-mapping.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE) += bootmem_info.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_GENERIC_IOREMAP) += ioremap.o
diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c
index fa9b2b598eab..bfc93da1c2c7 100644
--- a/mm/compaction.c
+++ b/mm/compaction.c
@@ -306,16 +306,14 @@ __reset_isolation_pfn(struct zone *zone, unsigned long pfn, bool check_source,
 	 * is necessary for the block to be a migration source/target.
 	 */
 	do {
-		if (pfn_valid_within(pfn)) {
-			if (check_source && PageLRU(page)) {
-				clear_pageblock_skip(page);
-				return true;
-			}
+		if (check_source && PageLRU(page)) {
+			clear_pageblock_skip(page);
+			return true;
+		}
 
-			if (check_target && PageBuddy(page)) {
-				clear_pageblock_skip(page);
-				return true;
-			}
+		if (check_target && PageBuddy(page)) {
+			clear_pageblock_skip(page);
+			return true;
 		}
 
 		page += (1 << PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER);
@@ -585,8 +583,6 @@ static unsigned long isolate_freepages_block(struct compact_control *cc,
 			break;
 
 		nr_scanned++;
-		if (!pfn_valid_within(blockpfn))
-			goto isolate_fail;
 
 		/*
 		 * For compound pages such as THP and hugetlbfs, we can save
@@ -885,8 +881,6 @@ isolate_migratepages_block(struct compact_control *cc, unsigned long low_pfn,
 			cond_resched();
 		}
 
-		if (!pfn_valid_within(low_pfn))
-			goto isolate_fail;
 		nr_scanned++;
 
 		page = pfn_to_page(low_pfn);
diff --git a/mm/damon/Kconfig b/mm/damon/Kconfig
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..37024798a97c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mm/damon/Kconfig
@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
+
+menu "Data Access Monitoring"
+
+config DAMON
+	bool "DAMON: Data Access Monitoring Framework"
+	help
+	  This builds a framework that allows kernel subsystems to monitor
+	  access frequency of each memory region. The information can be useful
+	  for performance-centric DRAM level memory management.
+
+	  See https://damonitor.github.io/doc/html/latest-damon/index.html for
+	  more information.
+
+config DAMON_KUNIT_TEST
+	bool "Test for damon" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS
+	depends on DAMON && KUNIT=y
+	default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS
+	help
+	  This builds the DAMON Kunit test suite.
+
+	  For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general, please refer
+	  to the KUnit documentation.
+
+	  If unsure, say N.
+
+config DAMON_VADDR
+	bool "Data access monitoring primitives for virtual address spaces"
+	depends on DAMON && MMU
+	select PAGE_IDLE_FLAG
+	help
+	  This builds the default data access monitoring primitives for DAMON
+	  that works for virtual address spaces.
+
+config DAMON_VADDR_KUNIT_TEST
+	bool "Test for DAMON primitives" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS
+	depends on DAMON_VADDR && KUNIT=y
+	default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS
+	help
+	  This builds the DAMON virtual addresses primitives Kunit test suite.
+
+	  For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general, please refer
+	  to the KUnit documentation.
+
+	  If unsure, say N.
+
+config DAMON_DBGFS
+	bool "DAMON debugfs interface"
+	depends on DAMON_VADDR && DEBUG_FS
+	help
+	  This builds the debugfs interface for DAMON.  The user space admins
+	  can use the interface for arbitrary data access monitoring.
+
+	  If unsure, say N.
+
+config DAMON_DBGFS_KUNIT_TEST
+	bool "Test for damon debugfs interface" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS
+	depends on DAMON_DBGFS && KUNIT=y
+	default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS
+	help
+	  This builds the DAMON debugfs interface Kunit test suite.
+
+	  For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general, please refer
+	  to the KUnit documentation.
+
+	  If unsure, say N.
+
+endmenu
diff --git a/mm/damon/Makefile b/mm/damon/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..fed4be3bace3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mm/damon/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+obj-$(CONFIG_DAMON)		:= core.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_DAMON_VADDR)	+= vaddr.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_DAMON_DBGFS)	+= dbgfs.o
diff --git a/mm/damon/core-test.h b/mm/damon/core-test.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..c938a9c34e6c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mm/damon/core-test.h
@@ -0,0 +1,253 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
+/*
+ * Data Access Monitor Unit Tests
+ *
+ * Copyright 2019 Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates.  All rights reserved.
+ *
+ * Author: SeongJae Park <sjpark@amazon.de>
+ */
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_DAMON_KUNIT_TEST
+
+#ifndef _DAMON_CORE_TEST_H
+#define _DAMON_CORE_TEST_H
+
+#include <kunit/test.h>
+
+static void damon_test_regions(struct kunit *test)
+{
+	struct damon_region *r;
+	struct damon_target *t;
+
+	r = damon_new_region(1, 2);
+	KUNIT_EXPECT_EQ(test, 1ul, r->ar.start);
+	KUNIT_EXPECT_EQ(test, 2ul, r->ar.end);
+	KUNIT_EXPECT_EQ(test, 0u, r->nr_accesses);
+
+	t = damon_new_target(42);
+	KUNIT_EXPECT_EQ(test, 0u, damon_nr_regions(t));
+
+	damon_add_region(r, t);
+	KUNIT_EXPECT_EQ(test, 1u, damon_nr_regions(t));
+
+	damon_del_region(r, t);
+	KUNIT_EXPECT_EQ(test, 0u, damon_nr_regions(t));
+
+	damon_free_target(t);
+}
+
+static unsigned int nr_damon_targets(struct damon_ctx *ctx)
+{
+	struct damon_target *t;
+	unsigned int nr_targets = 0;
+
+	damon_for_each_target(t, ctx)
+		nr_targets++;
+
+	return nr_targets;
+}
+
+static void damon_test_target(struct kunit *test)
+{
+	struct damon_ctx *c = damon_new_ctx();
+	struct damon_target *t;
+
+	t = damon_new_target(42);
+	KUNIT_EXPECT_EQ(test, 42ul, t->id);
+	KUNIT_EXPECT_EQ(test, 0u, nr_damon_targets(c));
+
+	damon_add_target(c, t);
+	KUNIT_EXPECT_EQ(test, 1u, nr_damon_targets(c));
+
+	damon_destroy_target(t);
+	KUNIT_EXPECT_EQ(test, 0u, nr_damon_targets(c));
+
+	damon_destroy_ctx(c);
+}
+
+/*
+ * Test kdamond_reset_aggregated()
+ *
+ * DAMON checks access to each region and aggregates this information as the
+ * access frequency of each region.  In detail, it increases '->nr_accesses' of
+ * regions that an access has confirmed.  'kdamond_reset_aggregated()' flushes
+ * the aggregated information ('->nr_accesses' of each regions) to the result
+ * buffer.  As a result of the flushing, the '->nr_accesses' of regions are
+ * initialized to zero.
+ */
+static void damon_test_aggregate(struct kunit *test)
+{
+	struct damon_ctx *ctx = damon_new_ctx();
+	unsigned long target_ids[] = {1, 2, 3};
+	unsigned long saddr[][3] = {{10, 20, 30}, {5, 42, 49}, {13, 33, 55} };
+	unsigned long eaddr[][3] = {{15, 27, 40}, {31, 45, 55}, {23, 44, 66} };
+	unsigned long accesses[][3] = {{42, 95, 84}, {10, 20, 30}, {0, 1, 2} };
+	struct damon_target *t;
+	struct damon_region *r;
+	int it, ir;
+
+	damon_set_targets(ctx, target_ids, 3);
+
+	it = 0;
+	damon_for_each_target(t, ctx) {
+		for (ir = 0; ir < 3; ir++) {
+			r = damon_new_region(saddr[it][ir], eaddr[it][ir]);
+			r->nr_accesses = accesses[it][ir];
+			damon_add_region(r, t);
+		}
+		it++;
+	}
+	kdamond_reset_aggregated(ctx);
+	it = 0;
+	damon_for_each_target(t, ctx) {
+		ir = 0;
+		/* '->nr_accesses' should be zeroed */
+		damon_for_each_region(r, t) {
+			KUNIT_EXPECT_EQ(test, 0u, r->nr_accesses);
+			ir++;
+		}
+		/* regions should be preserved */
+		KUNIT_EXPECT_EQ(test, 3, ir);
+		it++;
+	}
+	/* targets also should be preserved */
+	KUNIT_EXPECT_EQ(test, 3, it);
+
+	damon_destroy_ctx(ctx);
+}
+
+static void damon_test_split_at(struct kunit *test)
+{
+	struct damon_ctx *c = damon_new_ctx();
+	struct damon_target *t;
+	struct damon_region *r;
+
+	t = damon_new_target(42);
+	r = damon_new_region(0, 100);
+	damon_add_region(r, t);
+	damon_split_region_at(c, t, r, 25);
+	KUNIT_EXPECT_EQ(test, r->ar.start, 0ul);
+	KUNIT_EXPECT_EQ(test, r->ar.end, 25ul);
+
+	r = damon_next_region(r);
+	KUNIT_EXPECT_EQ(test, r->ar.start, 25ul);
+	KUNIT_EXPECT_EQ(test, r->ar.end, 100ul);
+
+	damon_free_target(t);
+	damon_destroy_ctx(c);
+}
+
+static void damon_test_merge_two(struct kunit *test)
+{
+	struct damon_target *t;
+	struct damon_region *r, *r2, *r3;
+	int i;
+
+	t = damon_new_target(42);
+	r = damon_new_region(0, 100);
+	r->nr_accesses = 10;
+	damon_add_region(r, t);
+	r2 = damon_new_region(100, 300);
+	r2->nr_accesses = 20;
+	damon_add_region(r2, t);
+
+	damon_merge_two_regions(t, r, r2);
+	KUNIT_EXPECT_EQ(test, r->ar.start, 0ul);
+	KUNIT_EXPECT_EQ(test, r->ar.end, 300ul);
+	KUNIT_EXPECT_EQ(test, r->nr_accesses, 16u);
+
+	i = 0;
+	damon_for_each_region(r3, t) {
+		KUNIT_EXPECT_PTR_EQ(test, r, r3);
+		i++;
+	}
+	KUNIT_EXPECT_EQ(test, i, 1);
+
+	damon_free_target(t);
+}
+
+static struct damon_region *__nth_region_of(struct damon_target *t, int idx)
+{
+	struct damon_region *r;
+	unsigned int i = 0;
+
+	damon_for_each_region(r, t) {
+		if (i++ == idx)
+			return r;
+	}
+
+	return NULL;
+}
+
+static void damon_test_merge_regions_of(struct kunit *test)
+{
+	struct damon_target *t;
+	struct damon_region *r;
+	unsigned long sa[] = {0, 100, 114, 122, 130, 156, 170, 184};
+	unsigned long ea[] = {100, 112, 122, 130, 156, 170, 184, 230};
+	unsigned int nrs[] = {0, 0, 10, 10, 20, 30, 1, 2};
+
+	unsigned long saddrs[] = {0, 114, 130, 156, 170};
+	unsigned long eaddrs[] = {112, 130, 156, 170, 230};
+	int i;
+
+	t = damon_new_target(42);
+	for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(sa); i++) {
+		r = damon_new_region(sa[i], ea[i]);
+		r->nr_accesses = nrs[i];
+		damon_add_region(r, t);
+	}
+
+	damon_merge_regions_of(t, 9, 9999);
+	/* 0-112, 114-130, 130-156, 156-170 */
+	KUNIT_EXPECT_EQ(test, damon_nr_regions(t), 5u);
+	for (i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
+		r = __nth_region_of(t, i);
+		KUNIT_EXPECT_EQ(test, r->ar.start, saddrs[i]);
+		KUNIT_EXPECT_EQ(test, r->ar.end, eaddrs[i]);
+	}
+	damon_free_target(t);
+}
+
+static void damon_test_split_regions_of(struct kunit *test)
+{
+	struct damon_ctx *c = damon_new_ctx();
+	struct damon_target *t;
+	struct damon_region *r;
+
+	t = damon_new_target(42);
+	r = damon_new_region(0, 22);
+	damon_add_region(r, t);
+	damon_split_regions_of(c, t, 2);
+	KUNIT_EXPECT_EQ(test, damon_nr_regions(t), 2u);
+	damon_free_target(t);
+
+	t = damon_new_target(42);
+	r = damon_new_region(0, 220);
+	damon_add_region(r, t);
+	damon_split_regions_of(c, t, 4);
+	KUNIT_EXPECT_EQ(test, damon_nr_regions(t), 4u);
+	damon_free_target(t);
+	damon_destroy_ctx(c);
+}
+
+static struct kunit_case damon_test_cases[] = {
+	KUNIT_CASE(damon_test_target),
+	KUNIT_CASE(damon_test_regions),
+	KUNIT_CASE(damon_test_aggregate),
+	KUNIT_CASE(damon_test_split_at),
+	KUNIT_CASE(damon_test_merge_two),
+	KUNIT_CASE(damon_test_merge_regions_of),
+	KUNIT_CASE(damon_test_split_regions_of),
+	{},
+};
+
+static struct kunit_suite damon_test_suite = {
+	.name = "damon",
+	.test_cases = damon_test_cases,
+};
+kunit_test_suite(damon_test_suite);
+
+#endif /* _DAMON_CORE_TEST_H */
+
+#endif	/* CONFIG_DAMON_KUNIT_TEST */
diff --git a/mm/damon/core.c b/mm/damon/core.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..30e9211f494a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mm/damon/core.c
@@ -0,0 +1,720 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+/*
+ * Data Access Monitor
+ *
+ * Author: SeongJae Park <sjpark@amazon.de>
+ */
+
+#define pr_fmt(fmt) "damon: " fmt
+
+#include <linux/damon.h>
+#include <linux/delay.h>
+#include <linux/kthread.h>
+#include <linux/random.h>
+#include <linux/slab.h>
+
+#define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS
+#include <trace/events/damon.h>
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_DAMON_KUNIT_TEST
+#undef DAMON_MIN_REGION
+#define DAMON_MIN_REGION 1
+#endif
+
+/* Get a random number in [l, r) */
+#define damon_rand(l, r) (l + prandom_u32_max(r - l))
+
+static DEFINE_MUTEX(damon_lock);
+static int nr_running_ctxs;
+
+/*
+ * Construct a damon_region struct
+ *
+ * Returns the pointer to the new struct if success, or NULL otherwise
+ */
+struct damon_region *damon_new_region(unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
+{
+	struct damon_region *region;
+
+	region = kmalloc(sizeof(*region), GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!region)
+		return NULL;
+
+	region->ar.start = start;
+	region->ar.end = end;
+	region->nr_accesses = 0;
+	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&region->list);
+
+	return region;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Add a region between two other regions
+ */
+inline void damon_insert_region(struct damon_region *r,
+		struct damon_region *prev, struct damon_region *next,
+		struct damon_target *t)
+{
+	__list_add(&r->list, &prev->list, &next->list);
+	t->nr_regions++;
+}
+
+void damon_add_region(struct damon_region *r, struct damon_target *t)
+{
+	list_add_tail(&r->list, &t->regions_list);
+	t->nr_regions++;
+}
+
+static void damon_del_region(struct damon_region *r, struct damon_target *t)
+{
+	list_del(&r->list);
+	t->nr_regions--;
+}
+
+static void damon_free_region(struct damon_region *r)
+{
+	kfree(r);
+}
+
+void damon_destroy_region(struct damon_region *r, struct damon_target *t)
+{
+	damon_del_region(r, t);
+	damon_free_region(r);
+}
+
+/*
+ * Construct a damon_target struct
+ *
+ * Returns the pointer to the new struct if success, or NULL otherwise
+ */
+struct damon_target *damon_new_target(unsigned long id)
+{
+	struct damon_target *t;
+
+	t = kmalloc(sizeof(*t), GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!t)
+		return NULL;
+
+	t->id = id;
+	t->nr_regions = 0;
+	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&t->regions_list);
+
+	return t;
+}
+
+void damon_add_target(struct damon_ctx *ctx, struct damon_target *t)
+{
+	list_add_tail(&t->list, &ctx->adaptive_targets);
+}
+
+static void damon_del_target(struct damon_target *t)
+{
+	list_del(&t->list);
+}
+
+void damon_free_target(struct damon_target *t)
+{
+	struct damon_region *r, *next;
+
+	damon_for_each_region_safe(r, next, t)
+		damon_free_region(r);
+	kfree(t);
+}
+
+void damon_destroy_target(struct damon_target *t)
+{
+	damon_del_target(t);
+	damon_free_target(t);
+}
+
+unsigned int damon_nr_regions(struct damon_target *t)
+{
+	return t->nr_regions;
+}
+
+struct damon_ctx *damon_new_ctx(void)
+{
+	struct damon_ctx *ctx;
+
+	ctx = kzalloc(sizeof(*ctx), GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!ctx)
+		return NULL;
+
+	ctx->sample_interval = 5 * 1000;
+	ctx->aggr_interval = 100 * 1000;
+	ctx->primitive_update_interval = 60 * 1000 * 1000;
+
+	ktime_get_coarse_ts64(&ctx->last_aggregation);
+	ctx->last_primitive_update = ctx->last_aggregation;
+
+	mutex_init(&ctx->kdamond_lock);
+
+	ctx->min_nr_regions = 10;
+	ctx->max_nr_regions = 1000;
+
+	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&ctx->adaptive_targets);
+
+	return ctx;
+}
+
+static void damon_destroy_targets(struct damon_ctx *ctx)
+{
+	struct damon_target *t, *next_t;
+
+	if (ctx->primitive.cleanup) {
+		ctx->primitive.cleanup(ctx);
+		return;
+	}
+
+	damon_for_each_target_safe(t, next_t, ctx)
+		damon_destroy_target(t);
+}
+
+void damon_destroy_ctx(struct damon_ctx *ctx)
+{
+	damon_destroy_targets(ctx);
+	kfree(ctx);
+}
+
+/**
+ * damon_set_targets() - Set monitoring targets.
+ * @ctx:	monitoring context
+ * @ids:	array of target ids
+ * @nr_ids:	number of entries in @ids
+ *
+ * This function should not be called while the kdamond is running.
+ *
+ * Return: 0 on success, negative error code otherwise.
+ */
+int damon_set_targets(struct damon_ctx *ctx,
+		      unsigned long *ids, ssize_t nr_ids)
+{
+	ssize_t i;
+	struct damon_target *t, *next;
+
+	damon_destroy_targets(ctx);
+
+	for (i = 0; i < nr_ids; i++) {
+		t = damon_new_target(ids[i]);
+		if (!t) {
+			pr_err("Failed to alloc damon_target\n");
+			/* The caller should do cleanup of the ids itself */
+			damon_for_each_target_safe(t, next, ctx)
+				damon_destroy_target(t);
+			return -ENOMEM;
+		}
+		damon_add_target(ctx, t);
+	}
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+/**
+ * damon_set_attrs() - Set attributes for the monitoring.
+ * @ctx:		monitoring context
+ * @sample_int:		time interval between samplings
+ * @aggr_int:		time interval between aggregations
+ * @primitive_upd_int:	time interval between monitoring primitive updates
+ * @min_nr_reg:		minimal number of regions
+ * @max_nr_reg:		maximum number of regions
+ *
+ * This function should not be called while the kdamond is running.
+ * Every time interval is in micro-seconds.
+ *
+ * Return: 0 on success, negative error code otherwise.
+ */
+int damon_set_attrs(struct damon_ctx *ctx, unsigned long sample_int,
+		    unsigned long aggr_int, unsigned long primitive_upd_int,
+		    unsigned long min_nr_reg, unsigned long max_nr_reg)
+{
+	if (min_nr_reg < 3) {
+		pr_err("min_nr_regions (%lu) must be at least 3\n",
+				min_nr_reg);
+		return -EINVAL;
+	}
+	if (min_nr_reg > max_nr_reg) {
+		pr_err("invalid nr_regions.  min (%lu) > max (%lu)\n",
+				min_nr_reg, max_nr_reg);
+		return -EINVAL;
+	}
+
+	ctx->sample_interval = sample_int;
+	ctx->aggr_interval = aggr_int;
+	ctx->primitive_update_interval = primitive_upd_int;
+	ctx->min_nr_regions = min_nr_reg;
+	ctx->max_nr_regions = max_nr_reg;
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+/**
+ * damon_nr_running_ctxs() - Return number of currently running contexts.
+ */
+int damon_nr_running_ctxs(void)
+{
+	int nr_ctxs;
+
+	mutex_lock(&damon_lock);
+	nr_ctxs = nr_running_ctxs;
+	mutex_unlock(&damon_lock);
+
+	return nr_ctxs;
+}
+
+/* Returns the size upper limit for each monitoring region */
+static unsigned long damon_region_sz_limit(struct damon_ctx *ctx)
+{
+	struct damon_target *t;
+	struct damon_region *r;
+	unsigned long sz = 0;
+
+	damon_for_each_target(t, ctx) {
+		damon_for_each_region(r, t)
+			sz += r->ar.end - r->ar.start;
+	}
+
+	if (ctx->min_nr_regions)
+		sz /= ctx->min_nr_regions;
+	if (sz < DAMON_MIN_REGION)
+		sz = DAMON_MIN_REGION;
+
+	return sz;
+}
+
+static bool damon_kdamond_running(struct damon_ctx *ctx)
+{
+	bool running;
+
+	mutex_lock(&ctx->kdamond_lock);
+	running = ctx->kdamond != NULL;
+	mutex_unlock(&ctx->kdamond_lock);
+
+	return running;
+}
+
+static int kdamond_fn(void *data);
+
+/*
+ * __damon_start() - Starts monitoring with given context.
+ * @ctx:	monitoring context
+ *
+ * This function should be called while damon_lock is hold.
+ *
+ * Return: 0 on success, negative error code otherwise.
+ */
+static int __damon_start(struct damon_ctx *ctx)
+{
+	int err = -EBUSY;
+
+	mutex_lock(&ctx->kdamond_lock);
+	if (!ctx->kdamond) {
+		err = 0;
+		ctx->kdamond_stop = false;
+		ctx->kdamond = kthread_run(kdamond_fn, ctx, "kdamond.%d",
+				nr_running_ctxs);
+		if (IS_ERR(ctx->kdamond)) {
+			err = PTR_ERR(ctx->kdamond);
+			ctx->kdamond = 0;
+		}
+	}
+	mutex_unlock(&ctx->kdamond_lock);
+
+	return err;
+}
+
+/**
+ * damon_start() - Starts the monitorings for a given group of contexts.
+ * @ctxs:	an array of the pointers for contexts to start monitoring
+ * @nr_ctxs:	size of @ctxs
+ *
+ * This function starts a group of monitoring threads for a group of monitoring
+ * contexts.  One thread per each context is created and run in parallel.  The
+ * caller should handle synchronization between the threads by itself.  If a
+ * group of threads that created by other 'damon_start()' call is currently
+ * running, this function does nothing but returns -EBUSY.
+ *
+ * Return: 0 on success, negative error code otherwise.
+ */
+int damon_start(struct damon_ctx **ctxs, int nr_ctxs)
+{
+	int i;
+	int err = 0;
+
+	mutex_lock(&damon_lock);
+	if (nr_running_ctxs) {
+		mutex_unlock(&damon_lock);
+		return -EBUSY;
+	}
+
+	for (i = 0; i < nr_ctxs; i++) {
+		err = __damon_start(ctxs[i]);
+		if (err)
+			break;
+		nr_running_ctxs++;
+	}
+	mutex_unlock(&damon_lock);
+
+	return err;
+}
+
+/*
+ * __damon_stop() - Stops monitoring of given context.
+ * @ctx:	monitoring context
+ *
+ * Return: 0 on success, negative error code otherwise.
+ */
+static int __damon_stop(struct damon_ctx *ctx)
+{
+	mutex_lock(&ctx->kdamond_lock);
+	if (ctx->kdamond) {
+		ctx->kdamond_stop = true;
+		mutex_unlock(&ctx->kdamond_lock);
+		while (damon_kdamond_running(ctx))
+			usleep_range(ctx->sample_interval,
+					ctx->sample_interval * 2);
+		return 0;
+	}
+	mutex_unlock(&ctx->kdamond_lock);
+
+	return -EPERM;
+}
+
+/**
+ * damon_stop() - Stops the monitorings for a given group of contexts.
+ * @ctxs:	an array of the pointers for contexts to stop monitoring
+ * @nr_ctxs:	size of @ctxs
+ *
+ * Return: 0 on success, negative error code otherwise.
+ */
+int damon_stop(struct damon_ctx **ctxs, int nr_ctxs)
+{
+	int i, err = 0;
+
+	for (i = 0; i < nr_ctxs; i++) {
+		/* nr_running_ctxs is decremented in kdamond_fn */
+		err = __damon_stop(ctxs[i]);
+		if (err)
+			return err;
+	}
+
+	return err;
+}
+
+/*
+ * damon_check_reset_time_interval() - Check if a time interval is elapsed.
+ * @baseline:	the time to check whether the interval has elapsed since
+ * @interval:	the time interval (microseconds)
+ *
+ * See whether the given time interval has passed since the given baseline
+ * time.  If so, it also updates the baseline to current time for next check.
+ *
+ * Return:	true if the time interval has passed, or false otherwise.
+ */
+static bool damon_check_reset_time_interval(struct timespec64 *baseline,
+		unsigned long interval)
+{
+	struct timespec64 now;
+
+	ktime_get_coarse_ts64(&now);
+	if ((timespec64_to_ns(&now) - timespec64_to_ns(baseline)) <
+			interval * 1000)
+		return false;
+	*baseline = now;
+	return true;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Check whether it is time to flush the aggregated information
+ */
+static bool kdamond_aggregate_interval_passed(struct damon_ctx *ctx)
+{
+	return damon_check_reset_time_interval(&ctx->last_aggregation,
+			ctx->aggr_interval);
+}
+
+/*
+ * Reset the aggregated monitoring results ('nr_accesses' of each region).
+ */
+static void kdamond_reset_aggregated(struct damon_ctx *c)
+{
+	struct damon_target *t;
+
+	damon_for_each_target(t, c) {