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| author | T.J. Mercier <tjmercier@google.com> | 2026-01-16 11:05:12 -0800 |
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| committer | Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@linaro.org> | 2026-01-19 19:10:01 +0530 |
| commit | ab4c3dcf9a71582503b4fb25aeab884c696cab25 (patch) | |
| tree | f76ad6c1ba723d8cc6cc3b18477a2d3b7919e683 /Documentation | |
| parent | 3c227be9065902f496a748068e0b2b6bd6f3f0a6 (diff) | |
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dma-buf: Remove DMA-BUF sysfs stats
Commit bdb8d06dfefd ("dmabuf: Add the capability to expose DMA-BUF stats
in sysfs") added dmabuf statistics to sysfs in 2021 under
CONFIG_DMABUF_SYSFS_STATS. After being used in production, performance
problems were discovered leading to its deprecation in 2022 in commit
e0a9f1fe206a ("dma-buf: deprecate DMABUF_SYSFS_STATS"). Some of the
problems with this interface were discussed in my LPC 2025 talk. [1][2]
Android was probably the last user of the interface, which has since
been migrated to use the dmabuf BPF iterator [3] to obtain the same
information more cheaply. As promised in that series, now that the
longterm stable 6.18 kernel has been released let's remove the sysfs
dmabuf statistics from the kernel.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D83qygudq9c
[2] https://lpc.events/event/19/contributions/2118/
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250522230429.941193-1-tjmercier@google.com/
Signed-off-by: T.J. Mercier <tjmercier@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@linaro.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260116190517.3268458-1-tjmercier@google.com
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-dmabuf-buffers | 24 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/driver-api/dma-buf.rst | 5 |
2 files changed, 0 insertions, 29 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-dmabuf-buffers b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-dmabuf-buffers deleted file mode 100644 index 5d3bc997dc64..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-dmabuf-buffers +++ /dev/null @@ -1,24 +0,0 @@ -What: /sys/kernel/dmabuf/buffers -Date: May 2021 -KernelVersion: v5.13 -Contact: Hridya Valsaraju <hridya@google.com> -Description: The /sys/kernel/dmabuf/buffers directory contains a - snapshot of the internal state of every DMA-BUF. - /sys/kernel/dmabuf/buffers/<inode_number> will contain the - statistics for the DMA-BUF with the unique inode number - <inode_number> -Users: kernel memory tuning/debugging tools - -What: /sys/kernel/dmabuf/buffers/<inode_number>/exporter_name -Date: May 2021 -KernelVersion: v5.13 -Contact: Hridya Valsaraju <hridya@google.com> -Description: This file is read-only and contains the name of the exporter of - the DMA-BUF. - -What: /sys/kernel/dmabuf/buffers/<inode_number>/size -Date: May 2021 -KernelVersion: v5.13 -Contact: Hridya Valsaraju <hridya@google.com> -Description: This file is read-only and specifies the size of the DMA-BUF in - bytes. diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/dma-buf.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/dma-buf.rst index 29abf1eebf9f..2f36c21d9948 100644 --- a/Documentation/driver-api/dma-buf.rst +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/dma-buf.rst @@ -125,11 +125,6 @@ Implicit Fence Poll Support .. kernel-doc:: drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf.c :doc: implicit fence polling -DMA-BUF statistics -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -.. kernel-doc:: drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf-sysfs-stats.c - :doc: overview - DMA Buffer ioctls ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |