[v3,01/13] mm/damon/core: Allow non-exclusive DAMON start/stop

diff --git a/include/linux/damon.h b/include/linux/damon.h
index 49c4a11ecf20..f8e99e47d747 100644
--- a/include/linux/damon.h
+++ b/include/linux/damon.h
@@ -508,7 +508,7 @@  int damon_nr_running_ctxs(void);
 int damon_register_ops(struct damon_operations *ops);
 int damon_select_ops(struct damon_ctx *ctx, enum damon_ops_id id);
 
-int damon_start(struct damon_ctx **ctxs, int nr_ctxs);
+int damon_start(struct damon_ctx **ctxs, int nr_ctxs, bool exclusive);
 int damon_stop(struct damon_ctx **ctxs, int nr_ctxs);
 
 #endif	/* CONFIG_DAMON */
diff --git a/mm/damon/core.c b/mm/damon/core.c
index 82e0a4620c4f..c1e0fed4e877 100644
--- a/mm/damon/core.c
+++ b/mm/damon/core.c
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ 
 
 static DEFINE_MUTEX(damon_lock);
 static int nr_running_ctxs;
+static bool running_exclusive_ctxs;
 
 static DEFINE_MUTEX(damon_ops_lock);
 static struct damon_operations damon_registered_ops[NR_DAMON_OPS];
@@ -434,22 +435,25 @@  static int __damon_start(struct damon_ctx *ctx)
  * 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
+ * @exclusive:	exclusiveness of this contexts group
  *
  * 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.
+ * caller should handle synchronization between the threads by itself.  If
+ * @exclusive is true and 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 damon_start(struct damon_ctx **ctxs, int nr_ctxs, bool exclusive)
 {
 	int i;
 	int err = 0;
 
 	mutex_lock(&damon_lock);
-	if (nr_running_ctxs) {
+	if ((exclusive && nr_running_ctxs) ||
+			(!exclusive && running_exclusive_ctxs)) {
 		mutex_unlock(&damon_lock);
 		return -EBUSY;
 	}
@@ -460,13 +464,15 @@  int damon_start(struct damon_ctx **ctxs, int nr_ctxs)
 			break;
 		nr_running_ctxs++;
 	}
+	if (exclusive && nr_running_ctxs)
+		running_exclusive_ctxs = true;
 	mutex_unlock(&damon_lock);
 
 	return err;
 }
 
 /*
- * __damon_stop() - Stops monitoring of given context.
+ * __damon_stop() - Stops monitoring of a given context.
  * @ctx:	monitoring context
  *
  * Return: 0 on success, negative error code otherwise.
@@ -504,9 +510,8 @@  int damon_stop(struct damon_ctx **ctxs, int nr_ctxs)
 		/* nr_running_ctxs is decremented in kdamond_fn */
 		err = __damon_stop(ctxs[i]);
 		if (err)
-			return err;
+			break;
 	}
-
 	return err;
 }
 
@@ -1102,6 +1107,8 @@  static int kdamond_fn(void *data)
 
 	mutex_lock(&damon_lock);
 	nr_running_ctxs--;
+	if (!nr_running_ctxs && running_exclusive_ctxs)
+		running_exclusive_ctxs = false;
 	mutex_unlock(&damon_lock);
 
 	return 0;
diff --git a/mm/damon/dbgfs.c b/mm/damon/dbgfs.c
index 05b574cbcea8..a0dab8b5e45f 100644
--- a/mm/damon/dbgfs.c
+++ b/mm/damon/dbgfs.c
@@ -967,7 +967,7 @@  static ssize_t dbgfs_monitor_on_write(struct file *file,
 				return -EINVAL;
 			}
 		}
-		ret = damon_start(dbgfs_ctxs, dbgfs_nr_ctxs);
+		ret = damon_start(dbgfs_ctxs, dbgfs_nr_ctxs, true);
 	} else if (!strncmp(kbuf, "off", count)) {
 		ret = damon_stop(dbgfs_ctxs, dbgfs_nr_ctxs);
 	} else {
diff --git a/mm/damon/reclaim.c b/mm/damon/reclaim.c
index b53d9c22fad1..e34c4d0c4d93 100644
--- a/mm/damon/reclaim.c
+++ b/mm/damon/reclaim.c
@@ -330,7 +330,7 @@  static int damon_reclaim_turn(bool on)
 	if (err)
 		goto free_scheme_out;
 
-	err = damon_start(&ctx, 1);
+	err = damon_start(&ctx, 1, true);
 	if (!err) {
 		kdamond_pid = ctx->kdamond->pid;
 		return 0;