Hey,

On 6/8/26 14:42, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 06, 2026 at 11:44:10PM +0200, Maarten Lankhorst wrote:
>> Hey,
>>
>> On 6/6/26 18:31, Natalie Vock wrote:
>>> On 6/6/26 00:44, Eric Chanudet wrote:
>>>> Accept only one "region value" pair entry for the dmem.max, dmem.min,
>>>> dmem.low files.>
>>>> This changes the UAPI that otherwise accepted multiple lines for setting
>>>> multiple entries in one write. No existing user is known to rely on
>>>> writing multiple regions in a single write.
>>>
>>> Ugh, shoot.
>>>
>>> For dmem.low specifically, there already are some userspace thingies 
>>> floating around that may write more than one region/value pairs.
>>>
>>> These thingies all depend on that one patchset for dmemcg protection that I 
>>> should really get around to merging[1]. Since the userspace utilities 
>>> depend on not-yet-merged patches, they sort of have to expect stuff 
>>> changing under their belts, so I wouldn't really consider those users a 
>>> blocker by necessity.
>>>
>>> As I see it, we could go down one of two paths:
>>> 1. We go ahead with the patch as proposed, and I make sure that the users I 
>>> know of adapt. Could be a bit icky wrt. "do not break userspace" rules, but 
>>> since the already use non-merged UAPIs in one place, you can argue that 
>>> these users kind of have to expect breakage.
>>> 2. We use the old handling allowing multiple lines for dmem.min and 
>>> dmem.low only. This preserves compatibility but uglifies the code by quite 
>>> a bit.
>>>
>>> All things considered, I think I personally would prefer going with 1. and 
>>> taking the patch as proposed and just having one codepath handling every 
>>> limit file. Just highlighting this so we don't do it on accident.
>>>
>>> [1] https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/series/163183/
>>>
>>
>> I prefer option 1 as well, but would like an ack from one of the core cgroup 
>> maintainers too,
>> and what Maxime's opinion on this as well.
> 
> Option 1 works for me too if doable
> 
> Maxime


I see this as an acked-by?

I'll commit this patch to drm-misc-next if so.

Fortunately it may not even break those scripts in the typical case where only 
1 region is registered, eg the most common laptop/desktop case.

Kind regards,
~Maarten Lankhorst

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