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. The list has been moved outside of CONFIG_DEBUG_FS scope so that it is always populated. 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.
This will allow us to replace our use of CONFIG_DMABUF_SYSFS_STATS, and the plan is to remove it from the kernel after the next longterm stable release.
[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
v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250414225227.3642618-1-tjmercier@google.com v1 -> v2: Make the DMA buffer list independent of CONFIG_DEBUG_FS per Christian König Add CONFIG_DMA_SHARED_BUFFER check to kernel/bpf/Makefile per kernel test robot Use BTF_ID_LIST_SINGLE instead of BTF_ID_LIST_GLOBAL_SINGLE per Song Liu Fixup comment style, mixing code/declarations, and use ASSERT_OK_FD in selftest per Song Liu Add BPF_ITER_RESCHED feature to bpf_dmabuf_reg_info per Alexei Starovoitov Add open-coded iterator and selftest per Alexei Starovoitov Add a second test buffer from the system dmabuf heap to selftests Use the BPF program we'll use in production for selftest per Alexei Starovoitov https://r.android.com/c/platform/system/bpfprogs/+/3616123/2/dmabufIter.c https://r.android.com/c/platform/system/memory/libmeminfo/+/3614259/1/libdma... v2: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250504224149.1033867-1-tjmercier@google.com v2 -> v3: Rebase onto bpf-next/master Move get_next_dmabuf() into drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf.c, along with the new get_first_dmabuf(). This avoids having to expose the dmabuf list and mutex to the rest of the kernel, and keeps the dmabuf mutex operations near each other in the same file. (Christian König) Add Christian's RB to dma-buf: Rename debugfs symbols Drop RFC: dma-buf: Remove DMA-BUF statistics
T.J. Mercier (5): dma-buf: Rename debugfs symbols bpf: Add dmabuf iterator bpf: Add open coded dmabuf iterator selftests/bpf: Add test for dmabuf_iter selftests/bpf: Add test for open coded dmabuf_iter
drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf.c | 94 +++++-- include/linux/dma-buf.h | 5 +- kernel/bpf/Makefile | 3 + kernel/bpf/dmabuf_iter.c | 149 ++++++++++ kernel/bpf/helpers.c | 5 + .../testing/selftests/bpf/bpf_experimental.h | 5 + tools/testing/selftests/bpf/config | 3 + .../selftests/bpf/prog_tests/dmabuf_iter.c | 258 ++++++++++++++++++ .../testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dmabuf_iter.c | 91 ++++++ 9 files changed, 591 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-) 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
base-commit: 43745d11bfd9683abdf08ad7a5cc403d6a9ffd15