Until CONFIG_DMABUF_SYSFS_STATS was added [1] it was only possible to perform per-buffer accounting with debugfs which is not suitable for production environments. Eventually we discovered the overhead with per-buffer sysfs file creation/removal was significantly impacting allocation and free times, and exacerbated kernfs lock contention. [2] dma_buf_stats_setup() is responsible for 39% of single-page buffer creation duration, or 74% of single-page dma_buf_export() duration when stressing dmabuf allocations and frees.
I prototyped a change from per-buffer to per-exporter statistics with a RCU protected list of exporter allocations that accommodates most (but not all) of our use-cases and avoids almost all of the sysfs overhead. While that adds less overhead than per-buffer sysfs, and less even than the maintenance of the dmabuf debugfs_list, it's still *additional* overhead on top of the debugfs_list and doesn't give us per-buffer info.
This series uses the existing dmabuf debugfs_list to implement a BPF dmabuf iterator, which adds no overhead to buffer allocation/free and provides per-buffer info. While the kernel must have CONFIG_DEBUG_FS for the dmabuf_iter to be available, debugfs does not need to be mounted. The BPF program loaded by userspace that extracts per-buffer information gets to define its own interface which avoids the lack of ABI stability with debugfs (even if it were mounted).
As this is a replacement for our use of CONFIG_DMABUF_SYSFS_STATS, the last patch is a RFC for removing it from the kernel. Please see my suggestion there regarding the timeline for that.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-media/20201210044400.1080308-1-hridya@google.c... [2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220516171315.2400578-1-tjmercier@google.com/
T.J. Mercier (4): dma-buf: Rename and expose debugfs symbols bpf: Add dmabuf iterator selftests/bpf: Add test for dmabuf_iter RFC: dma-buf: Remove DMA-BUF statistics
.../ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-dmabuf-buffers | 24 --- Documentation/driver-api/dma-buf.rst | 5 - drivers/dma-buf/Kconfig | 15 -- drivers/dma-buf/Makefile | 1 - drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf-sysfs-stats.c | 202 ------------------ drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf-sysfs-stats.h | 35 --- drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf.c | 40 +--- include/linux/btf_ids.h | 1 + include/linux/dma-buf.h | 6 + kernel/bpf/Makefile | 3 + kernel/bpf/dmabuf_iter.c | 130 +++++++++++ tools/testing/selftests/bpf/config | 1 + .../selftests/bpf/prog_tests/dmabuf_iter.c | 116 ++++++++++ .../testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dmabuf_iter.c | 31 +++ 14 files changed, 299 insertions(+), 311 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-dmabuf-buffers delete mode 100644 drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf-sysfs-stats.c delete mode 100644 drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf-sysfs-stats.h create mode 100644 kernel/bpf/dmabuf_iter.c create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/dmabuf_iter.c create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dmabuf_iter.c