mm/damon: remove the target id concept
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 commit removes the concept and uses clear type definition. For now, only 'struct pid' pointer is used for the virtual address spaces monitoring. If DAMON is extended in future so that we need to put another identifier field in the struct, we will use a union for such primitives-dependent fields and document which primitives are using which type. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20211013154535.4aaeaaf9d0182922e405dd1e@linux-foundation.org/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211230100723.2238-5-sj@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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