On Mon, Feb 14, 2022 at 02:25:47PM -0800, T.J. Mercier wrote:
On Fri, Feb 11, 2022 at 11:19 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman
--- a/include/uapi/linux/android/binder.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/android/binder.h @@ -137,6 +137,7 @@ struct binder_buffer_object {
enum { BINDER_BUFFER_FLAG_HAS_PARENT = 0x01,
BINDER_BUFFER_FLAG_SENDER_NO_NEED = 0x02,};
/* struct binder_fd_array_object - object describing an array of fds in a buffer
2.35.1.265.g69c8d7142f-goog
How does userspace know that binder supports this new flag?
Sorry, I don't completely follow even after Todd's comment. Doesn't the presence of BINDER_BUFFER_FLAG_SENDER_NO_NEED in the header do this?
There is no "header" when running a new kernel on an old userspace, right? How about the other way around, old kernel, new userspace?
So wouldn't userspace need to be compiled against the wrong kernel headers for there to be a problem? In that case the allocation would still succeed, but there would be no charge transfer and unfortunately no error code.
No error code is not good. People upgrade their kernels all the time, and do not do a "rebuild the world" when doing so.
And where is the userspace test for this new feature?
I tested this on a Pixel after modifying the gralloc implementation to mark allocated buffers as not used by the sender. This required setting the BINDER_BUFFER_FLAG_SENDER_NO_NEED in libhwbinder. That code can be found here: https://android-review.googlesource.com/c/platform/system/libhwbinder/+/1910... https://android-review.googlesource.com/c/platform/system/libhidl/+/1910611/
Then by inspecting gpu.memory.current files in sysfs I was able to see the memory attributed to processes other than the graphics allocator service. Before this change, several megabytes of memory were attributed to the graphics allocator service but those buffers are actually used by other processes like surfaceflinger, the camera, etc. After the change, the gpu.memory.current amount for the graphics allocator service was 0 and the charges showed up in the gpu.memory.current files for those other processes like this:
PID: 764 Process Name: zygote64 system 8192 system-uncached 23191552
PID: 529 Process Name: /system/bin/surfaceflinger system-uncached 109535232 system 92196864
PID: 530 Process Name: /vendor/bin/hw/android.hardware.graphics.allocator@4.0-service system-uncached 0 system 0 sensor_direct_heap 0
PID: 806 Process Name: /apex/com.google.pixel.camera.hal/bin/hw/android.hardware.camera.provider@2.7-service-google system 1196032
PID: 4608 Process Name: com.google.android.GoogleCamera system 2408448 system-uncached 38887424 sensor_direct_heap 0
PID: 32102 Process Name: com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox:search system-uncached 91279360 system 20480
PID: 2758 Process Name: com.google.android.youtube system-uncached 1662976 system 8192
PID: 2517 Process Name: com.google.android.apps.nexuslauncher system-uncached 115662848 system 122880
PID: 2066 Process Name: com.android.systemui system 86016 system-uncached 37957632
Isn't there a binder test framework somewhere?
Android has the Vendor Test Suite where automated tests could be added for this. Is that what you're thinking of?
tools/testing/selftests/ is a good start. VTS is the worst-case as no one can really run that on their own, but it is better than nothing. Having no test at all for this is not ok.
thanks,
greg k-h