From: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com>
To: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
kernel-team <kernel-team@android.com>,
DRI mailing list <dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>,
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Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
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Hridya Valsaraju <hridya@google.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
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Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] dmabuf/tracing: Add dma-buf trace events
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2020 15:44:51 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200804154451.GA948167@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200804010913.GA2096725@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
On Tue, Aug 04, 2020 at 02:09:13AM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 03, 2020 at 11:28:31PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
>
> > IOW, what the hell is that horror for? You do realize, for example, that there's
> > such thing as dup(), right? And dup2() as well. And while we are at it, how
> > do you keep track of removals, considering the fact that you can stick a file
> > reference into SCM_RIGHTS datagram sent to yourself, close descriptors and an hour
> > later pick that datagram, suddenly getting descriptor back?
> >
> > Besides, "I have no descriptors left" != "I can't be currently sitting in the middle
> > of syscall on that sucker"; close() does *NOT* terminate ongoing operations.
> >
> > You are looking at the drastically wrong abstraction level. Please, describe what
> > it is that you are trying to achieve.
Hi Al. Thank you for the comments. Ultimately what we need is to identify processes
that hold a file reference to the dma-buf. Unfortunately we can't use only
explicit dma_buf_get/dma_buf_put to track them because when an FD is being shared
between processes the file references are taken implicitly.
For example, on the sender side:
unix_dgram_sendmsg -> send_scm -> __send_scm -> scm_fp_copy -> fget_raw
and on the receiver side:
unix_dgram_recvmsg -> scm_recv -> scm_detach_fds -> __scm_install_fd -> get_file
I understand now that fd_install is not an appropriate abstraction level to track these.
Is there a more appropriate alternative where we could use to track these implicit file
references?
> _IF_ it's "who keeps a particularly long-lived sucker pinned", I would suggest
> fuser(1) run when you detect that kind of long-lived dmabuf. With events generated
> by their constructors and destructors, and detection of longevity done based on
> that.
>
> But that's only a semi-blind guess at the things you are trying to achieve; please,
> describe what it really is.
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Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-03 14:47 [PATCH 0/2] Per process tracking of dma buffers Kalesh Singh
2020-08-03 14:47 ` [PATCH 1/2] fs: Add fd_install file operation Kalesh Singh
[not found] ` <20200803163429.GA15200@infradead.org>
2020-08-03 18:26 ` Kalesh Singh
2020-08-03 22:18 ` Al Viro
2020-08-04 0:30 ` Joel Fernandes
2020-08-04 13:54 ` Kalesh Singh
2020-08-03 14:47 ` [PATCH 2/2] dmabuf/tracing: Add dma-buf trace events Kalesh Singh
2020-08-03 15:32 ` Steven Rostedt
2020-08-03 16:33 ` Kalesh Singh
2020-08-03 15:41 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-08-03 16:00 ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2020-08-03 16:12 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-08-03 16:22 ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2020-08-03 22:28 ` Al Viro
2020-08-04 1:09 ` Al Viro
2020-08-04 2:10 ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2020-08-04 15:44 ` Kalesh Singh [this message]
2020-08-04 18:27 ` Al Viro
2020-08-04 20:42 ` Kalesh Singh
2020-08-04 20:26 ` Daniel Vetter
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