linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 0/3] Improve the dma-buf tracking

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Date:   Fri, 14 Jun 2019 15:04:42 +0530
From:   Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@...aro.org>
To:     Chenbo Feng <fengc@...gle.com>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        DRI mailing list <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        Android Kernel Team <kernel-team@...roid.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/3] Improve the dma-buf tracking

Hi Chenbo,

On Fri, 14 Jun 2019 at 04:04, Chenbo Feng <fengc@...gle.com> wrote:
>
> Currently, all dma-bufs share the same anonymous inode. While we can count
> how many dma-buf fds or mappings a process has, we can't get the size of
> the backing buffers or tell if two entries point to the same dma-buf. And
> in debugfs, we can get a per-buffer breakdown of size and reference count,
> but can't tell which processes are actually holding the references to each
> buffer.

Thanks for the series; applied to drm-misc-next.
>

Best,
Sumit.