On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 10:58:50AM +0100, Christian König wrote: > In general a good idea, but I have a few concern/comments here. > > Am 10.12.20 um 05:43 schrieb Hridya Valsaraju: > > 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/<inode_number>/exporter_name > > /sys/kernel/dmabuf/<inode_number>/size > > /sys/kernel/dmabuf/<inode_number>/dev_map_info > > > > 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. > > Mhm, this makes it part of the UAPI. What is the justification for this? > > In other words do we really need those debug information in a production > environment? Production environments seem to want to know who is using up memory :)
