linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RFC 00/12] dma: Enable dmem cgroup tracking

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Message-ID: <f5fdc666-dd72-4a4f-9270-b539a3179382@amd.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2025 15:16:53 +0100
From: Christian König <christian.koenig@....com>
To: Maxime Ripard <mripard@...nel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 00/12] dma: Enable dmem cgroup tracking

[Adding Ben since we are currently in the middle of a discussion regarding exactly that problem]

Just for my understanding before I deep dive into the code: This uses a separate dmem cgroup and does not account against memcg, don't it?

Thanks,
Christian.

Am 10.03.25 um 13:06 schrieb Maxime Ripard:
> Hi,
>
> Here's preliminary work to enable dmem tracking for heavy users of DMA
> allocations on behalf of userspace: v4l2, DRM, and dma-buf heaps.
>
> It's not really meant for inclusion at the moment, because I really
> don't like it that much, and would like to discuss solutions on how to
> make it nicer.
>
> In particular, the dma dmem region accessors don't feel that great to
> me. It duplicates the logic to select the proper accessor in
> dma_alloc_attrs(), and it looks fragile and potentially buggy to me.
>
> One solution I tried is to do the accounting in dma_alloc_attrs()
> directly, depending on a flag being set, similar to what __GFP_ACCOUNT
> is doing.
>
> It didn't work because dmem initialises a state pointer when charging an
> allocation to a region, and expects that state pointer to be passed back
> when uncharging. Since dma_alloc_attrs() returns a void pointer to the
> allocated buffer, we need to put that state into a higher-level
> structure, such as drm_gem_object, or dma_buf.
>
> Since we can't share the region selection logic, we need to get the
> region through some other mean. Another thing I consider was to return
> the region as part of the allocated buffer (through struct page or
> folio), but those are lost across the calls and dma_alloc_attrs() will
> only get a void pointer. So that's not doable without some heavy
> rework, if it's a good idea at all.
>
> So yeah, I went for the dumbest possible solution with the accessors,
> hoping you could suggest a much smarter idea :)
>
> Thanks,
> Maxime
>
> Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <mripard@...nel.org>
> ---
> Maxime Ripard (12):
>       cma: Register dmem region for each cma region
>       cma: Provide accessor to cma dmem region
>       dma: coherent: Register dmem region for each coherent region
>       dma: coherent: Provide accessor to dmem region
>       dma: contiguous: Provide accessor to dmem region
>       dma: direct: Provide accessor to dmem region
>       dma: Create default dmem region for DMA allocations
>       dma: Provide accessor to dmem region
>       dma-buf: Clear cgroup accounting on release
>       dma-buf: cma: Account for allocations in dmem cgroup
>       drm/gem: Add cgroup memory accounting
>       media: videobuf2: Track buffer allocations through the dmem cgroup
>
>  drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf.c                          |  7 ++++
>  drivers/dma-buf/heaps/cma_heap.c                   | 18 ++++++++--
>  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem.c                          |  5 +++
>  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem_dma_helper.c               |  6 ++++
>  .../media/common/videobuf2/videobuf2-dma-contig.c  | 19 +++++++++++
>  include/drm/drm_device.h                           |  1 +
>  include/drm/drm_gem.h                              |  2 ++
>  include/linux/cma.h                                |  9 +++++
>  include/linux/dma-buf.h                            |  5 +++
>  include/linux/dma-direct.h                         |  2 ++
>  include/linux/dma-map-ops.h                        | 32 ++++++++++++++++++
>  include/linux/dma-mapping.h                        | 11 ++++++
>  kernel/dma/coherent.c                              | 26 +++++++++++++++
>  kernel/dma/direct.c                                |  8 +++++
>  kernel/dma/mapping.c                               | 39 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>  mm/cma.c                                           | 21 +++++++++++-
>  mm/cma.h                                           |  3 ++
>  17 files changed, 211 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> ---
> base-commit: 55a2aa61ba59c138bd956afe0376ec412a7004cf
> change-id: 20250307-dmem-cgroups-73febced0989
>
> Best regards,