[Linaro-mm-sig] [PATCH v3] dmabuf: Add the capability to expose DMA-BUF stats in sysfs

Hridya Valsaraju hridya at google.com
Wed Feb 3 20:14:04 UTC 2021 

On Wed, Feb 3, 2021 at 2:25 AM Daniel Vetter <daniel at ffwll.ch> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Feb 01, 2021 at 01:02:30PM -0800, Hridya Valsaraju wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 1, 2021 at 10:37 AM Daniel Vetter <daniel at ffwll.ch> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 1:03 PM Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal at linaro.org> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, 28 Jan 2021 at 17:23, Christian König
> > > > <ckoenig.leichtzumerken at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Am 28.01.21 um 12:00 schrieb Sumit Semwal:
> > > > > > Hi Hridya,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > On Wed, 27 Jan 2021 at 17:36, Greg KH <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > > > > >> On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 12:42:36PM -0800, Hridya Valsaraju wrote:
> > > > > >>> This patch allows statistics to be enabled for each DMA-BUF in
> > > > > >>> sysfs by enabling the config CONFIG_DMABUF_SYSFS_STATS.
> > > > > >>>
> > > > > >>> The following stats will be exposed by the interface:
> > > > > >>>
> > > > > >>> /sys/kernel/dmabuf/buffers/<inode_number>/exporter_name
> > > > > >>> /sys/kernel/dmabuf/buffers/<inode_number>/size
> > > > > >>> /sys/kernel/dmabuf/buffers/<inode_number>/attachments/<attach_uid>/device
> > > > > >>> /sys/kernel/dmabuf/buffers/<inode_number>/attachments/<attach_uid>/map_counter
> > > > > >>>
> > > > > >>> The inode_number is unique for each DMA-BUF and was added earlier [1]
> > > > > >>> in order to allow userspace to track DMA-BUF usage across different
> > > > > >>> processes.
> > > > > >>>
> > > > > >>> Currently, this information is exposed in
> > > > > >>> /sys/kernel/debug/dma_buf/bufinfo.
> > > > > >>> However, since debugfs is considered unsafe to be mounted in production,
> > > > > >>> it is being duplicated in sysfs.
> > > > > >>>
> > > > > >>> This information will be used to derive DMA-BUF
> > > > > >>> per-exporter stats and per-device usage stats for Android Bug reports.
> > > > > >>> The corresponding userspace changes can be found at [2].
> > > > > >>> Telemetry tools will also capture this information(along with other
> > > > > >>> memory metrics) periodically as well as on important events like a
> > > > > >>> foreground app kill (which might have been triggered by Low Memory
> > > > > >>> Killer). It will also contribute to provide a snapshot of the system
> > > > > >>> memory usage on other events such as OOM kills and Application Not
> > > > > >>> Responding events.
> > > > > >>>
> > > > > >>> A shell script that can be run on a classic Linux environment to read
> > > > > >>> out the DMA-BUF statistics can be found at [3](suggested by John
> > > > > >>> Stultz).
> > > > > >>>
> > > > > >>> The patch contains the following improvements over the previous version:
> > > > > >>> 1) Each attachment is represented by its own directory to allow creating
> > > > > >>> a symlink to the importing device and to also provide room for future
> > > > > >>> expansion.
> > > > > >>> 2) The number of distinct mappings of each attachment is exposed in a
> > > > > >>> separate file.
> > > > > >>> 3) The per-buffer statistics are now in /sys/kernel/dmabuf/buffers
> > > > > >>> inorder to make the interface expandable in future.
> > > > > >>>
> > > > > >>> All of the improvements above are based on suggestions/feedback from
> > > > > >>> Daniel Vetter and Christian König.
> > > > > >>>
> > > > > >>> [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/1088791/
> > > > > >>> [2]: https://android-review.googlesource.com/q/topic:%22dmabuf-sysfs%22+(status:open%20OR%20status:merged)
> > > > > >>> [3]: https://android-review.googlesource.com/c/platform/system/memory/libmeminfo/+/1549734
> > > > > >>>
> > > > > >>> Signed-off-by: Hridya Valsaraju <hridya at google.com>
> > > > > >>> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp at intel.com>
> > > > > > Thanks for the patch!
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Christian: If you're satisfied with the explanation around not
> > > > > > directly embedding kobjects into the dma_buf and dma_buf_attachment
> > > > > > structs, then with Greg's r-b from sysfs PoV, I think we can merge it.
> > > > > > Please let me know if you feel otherwise!
> > > > >
> > > > >  From the technical side it looks clean to me, feel free to add my
> > > > > acked-by while pushing.
> > > > >
> > > > > But I would at least try to convince Daniel on the design. At least some
> > > > > of his concerns seems to be valid and keep in mind that we need to
> > > > > support this interface forever.
> > > >
> > > > Naturally.
> > > >
> > > > Since he didn't comment over Hridya's last clarification about the
> > > > tracepoints to track total GPU memory allocations being orthogonal to
> > > > this series, I assumed he agreed with it.
> > >
> > > The tracepoint being orthogonal didn't really look convincing to me,
> > > since I do expect we'll need that at a much more generic level, at
> > > allocators. Whether that's dma-buf heaps or in drm or wherever. And we
> > > probably also need that to somehow align with cgroups accounting.
> > >
> > > But I guess for this it should be easy to extend however we see fit,
> > > so retrofitting allocator sources and anything else we want/need for
> > > the overall gpu memory account shouldn't be a problem. Also, it's
> > > first, so the proof for showing it all works together is more on the
> > > tracepoints :-)
> > >
> > > > Daniel, do you still have objections around adding this patch in?
> > >
> > > Needs docs (especially the uapi I think would be useful to document),
> > > igt tests, that kind of stuff still I think? It's meant to be generic
> > > uapi across drivers, generally we're a pile stricter for that (and yes
> > > dma-buf heaps I think didn't do all that, so maybe there's an argument
> > > for doing this a bit more sloppy or at least "the testsuite is
> > > somewhere else").
> >
> > Thank you for taking another look Daniel!
> >
> > I will try adding an IGT test for the sysfs files. Other than the
> > documentation in
> > Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-dmabuf-buffers(included in the
> > patch), is there another place you would like to see the documentation
> > copied to?
>
> So just read the other thread, and sounds like Christian König brought up
> a solid concern with dma-buf fds generally not staying around for much.

Thank you for the reply Daniel! Could you please elaborate on the
connection with the other thread you mentioned? I am a little confused
since this patch does not deal with tracking DMA-BUF fds.

Regards,
Hridya

>
> So I'm leaning more towards "this sounds like it's going to be useful for
> Android only, nothing else" concern.
> -Daniel
>
> >
> > Regards,
> > Hridya
> >
> > >
> > > But I think it would be good to have this all done.
> > > -Daniel
> > >
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Regards,
> > > > > Christian.
> > > >
> > > > Best,
> > > > Sumit.
> > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >>> ---
> > > > > >>> Changes in v3:
> > > > > >>> Fix a warning reported by the kernel test robot.
> > > > > >>>
> > > > > >>> Changes in v2:
> > > > > >>> -Move statistics to /sys/kernel/dmabuf/buffers in oder to allow addition
> > > > > >>> of other DMA-BUF-related sysfs stats in future. Based on feedback from
> > > > > >>> Daniel Vetter.
> > > > > >>> -Each attachment has its own directory to represent attaching devices as
> > > > > >>> symlinks and to introduce map_count as a separate file. Based on
> > > > > >>> feedback from Daniel Vetter and Christian König. Thank you both!
> > > > > >>> -Commit messages updated to point to userspace code in AOSP that will
> > > > > >>> read the DMA-BUF sysfs stats.
> > > > > >>>
> > > > > >>>
> > > > > >>>   .../ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-dmabuf-buffers   |  52 ++++
> > > > > >>>   drivers/dma-buf/Kconfig                       |  11 +
> > > > > >>>   drivers/dma-buf/Makefile                      |   1 +
> > > > > >>>   drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf-sysfs-stats.c         | 285 ++++++++++++++++++
> > > > > >>>   drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf-sysfs-stats.h         |  62 ++++
> > > > > >>>   drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf.c                     |  37 +++
> > > > > >>>   include/linux/dma-buf.h                       |  20 ++
> > > > > >>>   7 files changed, 468 insertions(+)
> > > > > >>>   create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-dmabuf-buffers
> > > > > >>>   create mode 100644 drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf-sysfs-stats.c
> > > > > >>>   create mode 100644 drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf-sysfs-stats.h
> > > > > >> I don't know the dma-buf code at all, but from a sysfs/kobject point of
> > > > > >> view, this patch looks good to me:
> > > > > >>
> > > > > >> Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
> > > > > > Best,
> > > > > > Sumit.
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> > > >
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Thanks and regards,
> > > >
> > > > Sumit Semwal
> > > > Linaro Consumer Group - Tech Lead
> > > > Linaro.org │ Open source software for ARM SoCs
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> > >
> > > --
> > > Daniel Vetter
> > > Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
> > > http://blog.ffwll.ch
>
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> Daniel Vetter
> Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
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