Messages in this thread | | | From | John Stultz <> | Date | Mon, 8 Feb 2021 22:06:36 -0800 | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/2] dma-buf: heaps: Fix the name used when exporting dmabufs to be the actual heap name |
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On Mon, Feb 8, 2021 at 10:03 PM Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@linaro.org> wrote: > > Hi Daniel, > > On Tue, 9 Feb 2021 at 02:36, Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch> wrote: > > > > On Mon, Feb 8, 2021 at 9:51 PM John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 8, 2021 at 2:08 AM Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch> wrote: > > > > On Sat, Feb 06, 2021 at 05:47:48AM +0000, John Stultz wrote: > > > > > By default dma_buf_export() sets the exporter name to be > > > > > KBUILD_MODNAME. Unfortunately this may not be identical to the > > > > > string used as the heap name (ie: "system" vs "system_heap"). > > > > > > > > > > This can cause some minor confusion with tooling, and there is > > > > > the future potential where multiple heap types may be exported > > > > > by the same module (but would all have the same name). > > > > > > > > > > So to avoid all this, set the exporter exp_name to the heap name. > > > > > > > > > > Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch> > > > > > Cc: Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@linaro.org> > > > > > Cc: Liam Mark <lmark@codeaurora.org> > > > > > Cc: Chris Goldsworthy <cgoldswo@codeaurora.org> > > > > > Cc: Laura Abbott <labbott@kernel.org> > > > > > Cc: Brian Starkey <Brian.Starkey@arm.com> > > > > > Cc: Hridya Valsaraju <hridya@google.com> > > > > > Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> > > > > > Cc: Sandeep Patil <sspatil@google.com> > > > > > Cc: Daniel Mentz <danielmentz@google.com> > > > > > Cc: Ørjan Eide <orjan.eide@arm.com> > > > > > Cc: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com> > > > > > Cc: Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel@collabora.com> > > > > > Cc: Simon Ser <contact@emersion.fr> > > > > > Cc: James Jones <jajones@nvidia.com> > > > > > Cc: linux-media@vger.kernel.org > > > > > Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org > > > > > Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> > > > > > > > > Looks reasonable to me. > > > > > > > > I guess the main worry is "does this mean heap names become uapi", in > > > > which case I'm maybe not so sure anymore how this will tie into the > > > > overall gpu memory accounting story. > > > > > > > > Since for dma-buf heaps one name per buffer is perfectly fine, since > > > > dma-buf heaps aren't very dynamic. But on discrete gpu drivers buffers > > > > move, so baking in the assumption that "exporter name = resource usage for > > > > this buffer" is broken. > > > > > > I suspect I'm missing a subtlety in what you're describing. My sense > > > of the exporter name doesn't account for a buffer's usage, it just > > > describes what code allocated it and implicitly which dmabuf_ops > > > handles it. Maybe could you give a more specific example of what > > > you're hoping to avoid? > > > > Just paranoia really - on the linux side where we allocate most > > buffers (even shared ones) with the driver, that allocator info isn't > > that meaningful, it really just tells you which code > > allocated/exported that dma-buf. > > > > But on Android, where all shared buffers come from specific heaps, it > > is rather meaningful information. So I wondered whether e.g. the > > android dmabuf debug tool uses that to collect per-heap stats, but > > sounds like no right now. Plus with the chat we've had I think we have > > a long-term plan for how to expose that information properly. > > > > > To me this patch is mostly just a consistency/least-surprise thing, so > > > the heaps exporter name matches the string used for the heap's chardev > > > device (the interface used to allocate it) in output like > > > debugfs/dma_buf/bufinfo. > > > > Yeah for debug this makes sense. a-b: me if you want that somewhere on > > the patches. > > Great that this got sorted; I'll apply both the patches of this series > to drm-misc-next, with your a-b.
Before you do, let me spin a v2 as I got some minor tweaks needed (using const char*) to fix the kbuild bot errors.
thanks -john
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