Re: [Linaro-mm-sig] [PATCH v5] dma-buf: Add DmaBufTotal counter in meminfo - Linaro-mm-sig

21 Apr 2021

On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 11:37:41AM +0000, Peter.Enderborg@sony.com wrote:
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On 4/20/21 1:14 PM, Daniel Vetter wrote:
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On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 09:26:00AM +0000, Peter.Enderborg@sony.com wrote:
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On 4/20/21 10:58 AM, Daniel Vetter wrote:
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On Sat, Apr 17, 2021 at 06:38:35PM +0200, Peter Enderborg wrote:
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This adds a total used dma-buf memory. Details
can be found in debugfs, however it is not for everyone
and not always available. dma-buf are indirect allocated by
userspace. So with this value we can monitor and detect
userspace applications that have problems.
Signed-off-by: Peter Enderborg peter.enderborg@sony.com
So there have been tons of discussions around how to track dma-buf and
why, and I really need to understand the use-cass here first I think. proc
uapi is as much forever as anything else, and depending what you're doing
this doesn't make any sense at all:

on most linux systems dma-buf are only instantiated for shared buffer.
So there this gives you a fairly meaningless number and not anything
reflecting gpu memory usage at all.

on Android all buffers are allocated through dma-buf afaik. But there
we've recently had some discussions about how exactly we should track
all this, and the conclusion was that most of this should be solved by
cgroups long term. So if this is for Android, then I don't think adding
random quick stop-gaps to upstream is a good idea (because it's a pretty
long list of patches that have come up on this).


So what is this for?
For the overview. dma-buf today only have debugfs for info. Debugfs
is not allowed by google to use in andoid. So this aggregate the information
so we can get information on what going on on the system.
And the LKML standard respond to that is "SHOW ME THE CODE".
Yes. Except this extends to how exactly this is supposed to be used in
userspace and acted upon.
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When the top memgc has a aggregated information on dma-buf it is maybe
a better source to meminfo. But then it also imply that dma-buf requires memcg.
And I dont see any problem to replace this with something better with it is ready.
The thing is, this is uapi. Once it's merged we cannot, ever, replace it.
It must be kept around forever, or a very close approximation thereof. So
merging this with the justification that we can fix it later on or replace
isn't going to happen.
It is intended to be relevant as long there is a dma-buf. This is a proper
metric. If the newer implementations is not get the same result it is
not doing it right and is not better. If a memcg counter or a global_zone
counter do the same thing they it can replace the suggested method.
We're not talking about a memcg controller, but about a dma-buf tracker.
Also my point was that you might not have a dma-buf on most linux systems
(outside of android really) for most gpu allocations. So we kinda need to
understand what you actually want to measure, not "I want to count all the
dma-buf in the system". Because that's a known-problematic metric in
general.
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But I dont think they will. dma-buf does not have to be mapped to a process,
and the case of vram, it is not covered in current global_zone. All of them
would be very nice to have in some form. But it wont change what the
correct value of what "Total" is.
We need to understand what the "correct" value is. Not in terms of kernel
code, but in terms of semantics. Like if userspace allocates a GL texture,
is this supposed to show up in your metric or not. Stuff like that.
-Daniel
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-Daniel
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-Daniel
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drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf.c | 12 ++++++++++++
 fs/proc/meminfo.c         |  5 ++++-
 include/linux/dma-buf.h   |  1 +
 3 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf.c b/drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf.c
index f264b70c383e..4dc37cd4293b 100644
--- a/drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf.c
+++ b/drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf.c
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ struct dma_buf_list {
 };
 
 static struct dma_buf_list db_list;
+static atomic_long_t dma_buf_global_allocated;
 
 static char *dmabuffs_dname(struct dentry *dentry, char *buffer, int buflen)
 {
@@ -79,6 +80,7 @@ static void dma_buf_release(struct dentry *dentry)
   if (dmabuf->resv == (struct dma_resv *)&dmabuf[1])
   	dma_resv_fini(dmabuf->resv);

atomic_long_sub(dmabuf->size, &dma_buf_global_allocated);
module_put(dmabuf->owner);
kfree(dmabuf->name);
kfree(dmabuf);

@@ -586,6 +588,7 @@ struct dma_buf *dma_buf_export(const struct dma_buf_export_info *exp_info)
   mutex_lock(&db_list.lock);
   list_add(&dmabuf->list_node, &db_list.head);
   mutex_unlock(&db_list.lock);

atomic_long_add(dmabuf->size, &dma_buf_global_allocated);

return dmabuf;
 
@@ -1346,6 +1349,15 @@ void dma_buf_vunmap(struct dma_buf *dmabuf, struct dma_buf_map *map)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(dma_buf_vunmap);
 
+/**


dma_buf_allocated_pages - Return the used nr of pages



allocated for dma-buf


*/

+long dma_buf_allocated_pages(void)
+{

return atomic_long_read(&dma_buf_global_allocated) >> PAGE_SHIFT;

+}



#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_FS
 static int dma_buf_debug_show(struct seq_file *s, void *unused)
 {
diff --git a/fs/proc/meminfo.c b/fs/proc/meminfo.c
index 6fa761c9cc78..ccc7c40c8db7 100644
--- a/fs/proc/meminfo.c
+++ b/fs/proc/meminfo.c
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 #ifdef CONFIG_CMA
 #include <linux/cma.h>
 #endif
+#include <linux/dma-buf.h>
 #include <asm/page.h>
 #include "internal.h"
 
@@ -145,7 +146,9 @@ static int meminfo_proc_show(struct seq_file *m, void *v)
   show_val_kb(m, "CmaFree:        ",
   	    global_zone_page_state(NR_FREE_CMA_PAGES));
 #endif



+#ifdef CONFIG_DMA_SHARED_BUFFER

show_val_kb(m, "DmaBufTotal:    ", dma_buf_allocated_pages());

+#endif
   hugetlb_report_meminfo(m);
 
   arch_report_meminfo(m);
diff --git a/include/linux/dma-buf.h b/include/linux/dma-buf.h
index efdc56b9d95f..5b05816bd2cd 100644
--- a/include/linux/dma-buf.h
+++ b/include/linux/dma-buf.h
@@ -507,4 +507,5 @@ int dma_buf_mmap(struct dma_buf *, struct vm_area_struct *,
   	 unsigned long);
 int dma_buf_vmap(struct dma_buf *dmabuf, struct dma_buf_map *map);
 void dma_buf_vunmap(struct dma_buf *dmabuf, struct dma_buf_map *map);
+long dma_buf_allocated_pages(void);
#endif /* __DMA_BUF_H__ */
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