> On Mon, 1 Feb 2021 09:37:39 -0800 Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 3:59 AM SeongJae Park <sjpark@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > From: SeongJae Park <sjpark@xxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > DAMON is designed to be used by kernel space code such as the memory
> > > management subsystems, and therefore it provides only kernel space API.
> >
> > Which kernel space APIs are being referred here?
>
> The symbols in 'include/linux/damon.h'
>
> >
> > > That said, letting the user space control DAMON could provide some
> > > benefits to them. For example, it will allow user space to analyze
> > > their specific workloads and make their own special optimizations.
> > >
> > > For such cases, this commit implements a simple DAMON application kernel
> > > module, namely 'damon-dbgfs', which merely wraps the DAMON api and
> > > exports those to the user space via the debugfs.
> > >
> [...]
> > > +static ssize_t dbgfs_target_ids_write(struct file *file,
> > > + const char __user *buf, size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
> > > +{
> > > + struct damon_ctx *ctx = file->private_data;
> > > + char *kbuf, *nrs;
> > > + unsigned long *targets;
> > > + ssize_t nr_targets;
> > > + ssize_t ret = count;
> > > + int i;
> > > + int err;
> > > +
> > > + kbuf = user_input_str(buf, count, ppos);
> > > + if (IS_ERR(kbuf))
> > > + return PTR_ERR(kbuf);
> > > +
> > > + nrs = kbuf;
> > > +
> > > + targets = str_to_target_ids(nrs, ret, &nr_targets);
> > > + if (!targets) {
> > > + ret = -ENOMEM;
> > > + goto out;
> > > + }
> > > +
> > > + if (targetid_is_pid(ctx)) {
> > > + for (i = 0; i < nr_targets; i++)
> > > + targets[i] = (unsigned long)find_get_pid(
> > > + (int)targets[i]);
> > > + }
> > > +
> > > + mutex_lock(&ctx->kdamond_lock);
> > > + if (ctx->kdamond) {
> > > + ret = -EINVAL;
> > > + goto unlock_out;
> >
> > You need to put_pid on the targets array.
>
> Good catch!
>
> >
> > > + }
> > > +
> > > + err = damon_set_targets(ctx, targets, nr_targets);
> > > + if (err)
> > > + ret = err;
> >
> > You need to handle the partial failure from damon_set_targets().
>
> My intention is to keep partial success as is.
But, we should put_pid() partial failures... I will simply make this to
completely fail with no registered target.
Thanks,
SeongJae Park
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