mm/damon: implement a function for max nr_accesses safe calculation

Patch series "avoid divide-by-zero due to max_nr_accesses overflow".

The maximum nr_accesses of given DAMON context can be calculated by
dividing the aggregation interval by the sampling interval.  Some logics
in DAMON uses the maximum nr_accesses as a divisor.  Hence, the value
shouldn't be zero.  Such case is avoided since DAMON avoids setting the
agregation interval as samller than the sampling interval.  However, since
nr_accesses is unsigned int while the intervals are unsigned long, the
maximum nr_accesses could be zero while casting.

Avoid the divide-by-zero by implementing a function that handles the
corner case (first patch), and replaces the vulnerable direct max
nr_accesses calculations (remaining patches).

Note that the patches for the replacements are divided for broken commits,
to make backporting on required tres easier.  Especially, the last patch
is for a patch that not yet merged into the mainline but in mm tree.


This patch (of 4):

The maximum nr_accesses of given DAMON context can be calculated by
dividing the aggregation interval by the sampling interval.  Some logics
in DAMON uses the maximum nr_accesses as a divisor.  Hence, the value
shouldn't be zero.  Such case is avoided since DAMON avoids setting the
agregation interval as samller than the sampling interval.  However, since
nr_accesses is unsigned int while the intervals are unsigned long, the
maximum nr_accesses could be zero while casting.  Implement a function
that handles the corner case.

Note that this commit is not fixing the real issue since this is only
introducing the safe function that will replaces the problematic
divisions.  The replacements will be made by followup commits, to make
backporting on stable series easier.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231019194924.100347-1-sj@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231019194924.100347-2-sj@kernel.org
Fixes: 198f0f4c58b9 ("mm/damon/vaddr,paddr: support pageout prioritization")
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Jakub Acs <acsjakub@amazon.de>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>	[5.16+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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