Re: [PATCH 04/10] dmapool: improve accuracy of debug statistics

From: Robin Murphy
Date: Tue May 31 2022 - 15:48:36 EST


On 2022-05-31 19:17, Tony Battersby wrote:
The "total number of blocks in pool" debug statistic currently does not
take the boundary value into account, so it diverges from the "total
number of blocks in use" statistic when a boundary is in effect. Add a
calculation for the number of blocks per allocation that takes the
boundary into account, and use it to replace the inaccurate calculation.

This depends on the patch "dmapool: fix boundary comparison" for the
calculated blks_per_alloc value to be correct.

Signed-off-by: Tony Battersby <tonyb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/dmapool.c | 7 +++++--
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/dmapool.c b/mm/dmapool.c
index 782143144a32..9e30f4425dea 100644
--- a/mm/dmapool.c
+++ b/mm/dmapool.c
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ struct dma_pool { /* the pool */
struct device *dev;
unsigned int allocation;
unsigned int boundary;
+ unsigned int blks_per_alloc;
char name[32];
struct list_head pools;
};
@@ -92,8 +93,7 @@ static ssize_t pools_show(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr, cha
/* per-pool info, no real statistics yet */
temp = scnprintf(next, size, "%-16s %4zu %4zu %4u %2u\n",

Nit: if we're tinkering with this, it's probably worth updating the whole function to use sysfs_emit{_at}().

pool->name, blocks,
- (size_t) pages *
- (pool->allocation / pool->size),
+ (size_t) pages * pool->blks_per_alloc,
pool->size, pages);
size -= temp;
next += temp;
@@ -168,6 +168,9 @@ struct dma_pool *dma_pool_create(const char *name, struct device *dev,
retval->size = size;
retval->boundary = boundary;
retval->allocation = allocation;
+ retval->blks_per_alloc =
+ (allocation / boundary) * (boundary / size) +
+ (allocation % boundary) / size;

Do we really need to store this? Sure, 4 divisions (which could possibly be fewer given the constraints on boundary) isn't the absolute cheapest calculation, but I still can't imagine anyone would be polling sysfs stats hard enough to even notice.

Thanks,
Robin.

INIT_LIST_HEAD(&retval->pools);