mm/damon/core: implement region-based sampling

To avoid the unbounded increase of the overhead, DAMON groups adjacent
pages that are assumed to have the same access frequencies into a
region.  As long as the assumption (pages in a region have the same
access frequencies) is kept, only one page in the region is required to
be checked.  Thus, for each ``sampling interval``,

 1. the 'prepare_access_checks' primitive picks one page in each region,
 2. waits for one ``sampling interval``,
 3. checks whether the page is accessed meanwhile, and
 4. increases the access count of the region if so.

Therefore, the monitoring overhead is controllable by adjusting the
number of regions.  DAMON allows both the underlying primitives and user
callbacks to adjust regions for the trade-off.  In other words, this
commit makes DAMON to use not only time-based sampling but also
space-based sampling.

This scheme, however, cannot preserve the quality of the output if the
assumption is not guaranteed.  Next commit will address this problem.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Leonard Foerster <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Fernand Sieber <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]>
Cc: Amit Shah <[email protected]>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email protected]>
Cc: Brendan Higgins <[email protected]>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <[email protected]>
Cc: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
Cc: David Woodhouse <[email protected]>
Cc: Fan Du <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Thelen <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Joe Perches <[email protected]>
Cc: Jonathan Cameron <[email protected]>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]>
Cc: Marco Elver <[email protected]>
Cc: Markus Boehme <[email protected]>
Cc: Maximilian Heyne <[email protected]>
Cc: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Cc: Minchan Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
Cc: Shuah Khan <[email protected]>
Cc: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <[email protected]>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <[email protected]>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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