On 10/11/2016 04:50 PM, Ruchi Kandoi wrote:
> Any process holding a reference to these buffers will keep the kernel from
> reclaiming its backing pages. mm counters don't provide a complete picture of
> these allocations, since they only account for pages that are mapped into a
> process's address
Am 12.10.2016 um 01:50 schrieb Ruchi Kandoi:
This patchstack adds memtrack hooks into dma-buf and ion. If there's upstream
interest in memtrack, it can be extended to other memory allocators as well,
such as GEM implementations.
We have run into similar problems before. Because of this I already
On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 7:50 PM, Ruchi Kandoi wrote:
> This patchstack introduces a new "memtrack" module for tracking and accounting
> memory exported to userspace as shared buffers, like dma-buf fds or GEM
> handles.
btw, I wouldn't care much about the non-dmabuf case.. dri2/flink is
kind of l
On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 04:50:04PM -0700, Ruchi Kandoi wrote:
> memtrack maintains a per-process list of shared buffer references, which is
> exported to userspace as /proc/[pid]/memtrack. Buffers can be optionally
> "tagged" with a short string: for example, Android userspace would use this
> ta
This patchstack introduces a new "memtrack" module for tracking and accounting
memory exported to userspace as shared buffers, like dma-buf fds or GEM handles.
Any process holding a reference to these buffers will keep the kernel from
reclaiming its backing pages. mm counters don't provide a comp
