Re: Is it ok to use debugfs to dump some ucontext-level driver-defined info?

[Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>]

On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 01:31:39PM +0000, liweihang wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> We want to dump some hns driver-defined information that belongs to a
> process to keep track of current memory usage. For example, there is
> a ucontext-level(process-level) memory pool to store WQE which is
> shared by a lot of QPs, we want to record and query which QPs are using
> this pool and how much space each QP is using.
>
> rdmatool don't have a ucontext-level resource tracking currently, is it
> ok to achieve that through debugfs?
>
> This may looks like:
>
> $ echo 1 > <dbgfs_dir>/hns_roce/hns_0/<pid>/qp
> QPN        Total(kB)  SQ(kB)     SGE(kB)    RQ(kB)
> 110        6400       256        2048       4096
> 118        6400       256        2048       0
>
> Or should it be achieved in rdmatool?

I think so, because PID != ucontext. Why can't it be presented as QP
attribute? Can you please send "rdmatool" example?

Thanks

>
> Thanks
> Weihang