On Wed, Jan 11, 2023 at 04:49:36PM -0800, T.J. Mercier wrote: > [...] > > The problem is a bit that with gpu allocations reclaim is essentially "we > > pass the error to userspace and they get to sort the mess out". There are > > some exceptions (some gpu drivers to have shrinkers) would we need to make > > sure these shrinkers are tied into the cgroup stuff before we could enable > > charging for them? > > > I'm also not sure that we can depend on the dmabuf being backed at > export time 100% of the time? (They are for dmabuf heaps.) If not, > that'd make calling the existing memcg folio based functions a bit > difficult. > Where does the actual memory get allocated? I see the first patch is updating the stat in dma_buf_export() and dma_buf_release(). Does the memory get allocated and freed in those code paths?
