Re: [PATCH v3] dma-buf/heaps: system_heap: avoid too much allocation

[Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>]

On Thu 13-04-23 09:16:58, Jaewon Kim wrote:
> >On Wed, Apr 12, 2023 at 4:38?AM Jaewon Kim <jaewon31.kim@samsung.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Yes I think you're right. As a allocator, dma-buf system heap looks to be loose
> >> in memory allocation. Limiting dmabuf memory may be required. But I think there
> >> is no nice and reasonable way so far. And the dma-buf system heap is being
> >> widely used in Android mobile system. AFAIK the camera consumes huge memory
> >> through this dma-buf system heap. I actually even looked a huge size request
> >> over 2GB in one dma-buf request.
> >>
> >Hey can you point me to where you saw a request that big? That's a
> >non-buggy request?!
> 
> (let me resend as plain text)
> It was one of camera scenarios. I internally asked and heard that was not a bug
> but normal. I think 2GB looks too big for one graphics buffer but it could be
> for other purposes like camera. I think the system heap should support that.

Is that any of the upstream drivers or something sitting out of the
tree.

> Regarding __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL, we may need to say dma-buf system heap was
> designed to gather many pages up to a requested size. If mm returns NULL due to
> __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL, dma-buf system heap will release other already allocated
> pages, so that it may help to avoid oom.

This really depends on the other activity on the system. If you have a
more concurrent memory demand at the time then you might be just out of
the luck. Really, claiming huge portion of the memory shouldn't be done
nilly willy.
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs