Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] dma-buf: heaps: add chunk heap to dmabuf heaps

[Minchan Kim]

On Tue, Dec 01, 2020 at 03:38:14PM -0800, John Stultz wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 1, 2020 at 2:55 PM Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 01, 2020 at 11:48:15AM -0800, John Stultz wrote:
> > > On Tue, Dec 1, 2020 at 9:51 AM Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > Thanks for reworking and resending this!
> > >
> > > ...
> > > > +static int __init chunk_heap_init(void)
> > > > +{
> > > > +       struct cma *default_cma = dev_get_cma_area(NULL);
> > > > +       struct dma_heap_export_info exp_info;
> > > > +       struct chunk_heap *chunk_heap;
> > > > +
> > > > +       if (!default_cma)
> > > > +               return 0;
> > > > +
> > > > +       chunk_heap = kzalloc(sizeof(*chunk_heap), GFP_KERNEL);
> > > > +       if (!chunk_heap)
> > > > +               return -ENOMEM;
> > > > +
> > > > +       chunk_heap->order = CHUNK_HEAP_ORDER;
> > > > +       chunk_heap->cma = default_cma;
> > > > +
> > > > +       exp_info.name = cma_get_name(default_cma);
> > >
> > > So, this would create a chunk heap name with the default CMA name,
> > > which would be indistinguishable from the heap name used for the plain
> > > CMA heap.
> > >
> > > Probably a good idea to prefix it with "chunk-" so the heap device
> > > names are unique?
> >
> > That will give an impression to user that they are using different CMA
> > area but that's not true. IMHO, let's be honest at this moment.
> 
> I disagree.  The dmabuf heaps provide an abstraction for allocating a
> type of memory, and while your heap is pulling from CMA, you aren't
> "just" allocating CMA as the existing CMA heap would suffice for that.
> 
> Since you need a slightly different method to allocate high order
> pages in bulk, we really should have a unique way to name the
> allocator interface. That's why I'd suggest the "chunk-" prefix to the
> heap name.

Got it. How about this? 

diff --git a/drivers/dma-buf/heaps/chunk_heap.c b/drivers/dma-buf/heaps/chunk_heap.c
index 0277707a93a9..36e189d0b73d 100644
--- a/drivers/dma-buf/heaps/chunk_heap.c
+++ b/drivers/dma-buf/heaps/chunk_heap.c
@@ -410,7 +410,7 @@ static int __init chunk_heap_init(void)
        chunk_heap->order = CHUNK_HEAP_ORDER;
        chunk_heap->cma = default_cma;

-       exp_info.name = cma_get_name(default_cma);
+       exp_info.name = "cma-chunk-heap";
        exp_info.ops = &chunk_heap_ops;
        exp_info.priv = chunk_heap;