Re: [PATCH 2/2] dmabuf/tracing: Add dma-buf trace events

[Al Viro]

On Mon, Aug 03, 2020 at 11:28:31PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:

> IOW, what the hell is that horror for?  You do realize, for example, that there's
> such thing as dup(), right?  And dup2() as well.  And while we are at it, how
> do you keep track of removals, considering the fact that you can stick a file
> reference into SCM_RIGHTS datagram sent to yourself, close descriptors and an hour
> later pick that datagram, suddenly getting descriptor back?
> 
> Besides, "I have no descriptors left" != "I can't be currently sitting in the middle
> of syscall on that sucker"; close() does *NOT* terminate ongoing operations.
> 
> You are looking at the drastically wrong abstraction level.  Please, describe what
> it is that you are trying to achieve.

_IF_ it's "who keeps a particularly long-lived sucker pinned", I would suggest
fuser(1) run when you detect that kind of long-lived dmabuf.  With events generated
by their constructors and destructors, and detection of longevity done based on
that.

But that's only a semi-blind guess at the things you are trying to achieve; please,
describe what it really is.