linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 5/8] dma-debug: Make leak-like behaviour apparent

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Date:   Wed,  5 Dec 2018 19:56:54 +0000
From:   Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>
To:     hch@....de
Cc:     m.szyprowski@...sung.com, iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, cai@....us, salil.mehta@...wei.com,
        john.garry@...wei.com
Subject: [PATCH v2 5/8] dma-debug: Make leak-like behaviour apparent

Now that we can dynamically allocate DMA debug entries to cope with
drivers maintaining excessively large numbers of live mappings, a driver
which *does* actually have a bug leaking mappings (and is not unloaded)
will no longer trigger the "DMA-API: debugging out of memory - disabling"
message until it gets to actual kernel OOM conditions, which means it
could go unnoticed for a while. To that end, let's inform the user each
time the pool has grown to a multiple of its initial size, which should
make it apparent that they either have a leak or might want to increase
the preallocation size.

Signed-off-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>
---

v2: Move the suggestion of a leak from the message to the documentation

 Documentation/DMA-API.txt |  6 +++++-
 kernel/dma/debug.c        | 13 +++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/DMA-API.txt b/Documentation/DMA-API.txt
index 0fcb7561af1e..7a7d8a415ce8 100644
--- a/Documentation/DMA-API.txt
+++ b/Documentation/DMA-API.txt
@@ -747,7 +747,11 @@ driver afterwards. This filter can be disabled or changed later using debugfs.
 When the code disables itself at runtime this is most likely because it ran
 out of dma_debug_entries and was unable to allocate more on-demand. 65536
 entries are preallocated at boot - if this is too low for you boot with
-'dma_debug_entries=<your_desired_number>' to overwrite the default.
+'dma_debug_entries=<your_desired_number>' to overwrite the default. The
+code will print to the kernel log each time it has dynamically allocated
+as many entries as were initially preallocated. This is to indicate that a
+larger preallocation size may be appropriate, or if it happens continually
+that a driver may be leaking mappings.
 
 ::
 
diff --git a/kernel/dma/debug.c b/kernel/dma/debug.c
index b1fe8b78acc4..cd9a12bf6a3a 100644
--- a/kernel/dma/debug.c
+++ b/kernel/dma/debug.c
@@ -693,6 +693,18 @@ static struct dma_debug_entry *__dma_entry_alloc(void)
 	return entry;
 }
 
+void __dma_entry_alloc_check_leak(void)
+{
+	u32 tmp = nr_total_entries % nr_prealloc_entries;
+
+	/* Shout each time we tick over some multiple of the initial pool */
+	if (tmp < DMA_DEBUG_DYNAMIC_ENTRIES) {
+		pr_info("dma_debug_entry pool grown to %u (%u00%%)\n",
+			nr_total_entries,
+			(nr_total_entries / nr_prealloc_entries));
+	}
+}
+
 /* struct dma_entry allocator
  *
  * The next two functions implement the allocator for
@@ -711,6 +723,7 @@ static struct dma_debug_entry *dma_entry_alloc(void)
 			pr_err("debugging out of memory - disabling\n");
 			return NULL;
 		}
+		__dma_entry_alloc_check_leak();
 	}
 
 	entry = __dma_entry_alloc();
-- 
2.19.1.dirty