Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] dma-buf: heaps: cma: enable dmem cgroup accounting
From: Albert Esteve
Date: Thu Feb 19 2026 - 04:45:38 EST
On Wed, Feb 18, 2026 at 6:15 PM Eric Chanudet <echanude@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> An earlier series[1] from Maxime introduced dmem to the cma allocator in
> an attempt to use it generally for dma-buf. Restart from there and apply
> the charge in the narrower context of the CMA dma-buf heap instead.
>
> In line with introducing cgroup to the system heap[2], this behavior is
> enabled based on dma_heap.mem_accounting, disabled by default.
>
> dmem is chosen for CMA heaps as it allows limits to be set for each
> region backing each heap. The charge is only put in the dma-buf heap for
> now as it guaranties it can be accounted against a userspace process
> that requested the allocation.
>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250310-dmem-cgroups-v1-0-2984c1bc9312@xxxxxxxxxx/
> [2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260116-dmabuf-heap-system-memcg-v3-0-ecc6b62cc446@xxxxxxxxxx/
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Chanudet <echanude@xxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Albert Esteve <aesteve@xxxxxxxxxx>
I tested the series with a Fedora VM, setting the global user.slice
dmem.max value and then trying to allocate buffers of different sizes
with DMA_HEAP_IOCTL_ALLOC. Exceeding the max limit results in
'Resource temporarily unavailable' and the allocation fails.
BR,
Albert
> ---
> Changes in v2:
> - Rebase on Maxime's introduction of dmem to the cma allocator:
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250310-dmem-cgroups-v1-0-2984c1bc9312@xxxxxxxxxx/
> - Remove the dmem region registration from the cma dma-buf heap
> - Remove the misplaced logic for the default region.
> - Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260130-dmabuf-heap-cma-dmem-v1-1-3647ea993e99@xxxxxxxxxx
>
> ---
> Eric Chanudet (1):
> dma-buf: heaps: cma: charge each cma heap's dmem
>
> Maxime Ripard (2):
> cma: Register dmem region for each cma region
> cma: Provide accessor to cma dmem region
>
> drivers/dma-buf/heaps/cma_heap.c | 15 ++++++++++++++-
> include/linux/cma.h | 9 +++++++++
> mm/cma.c | 20 +++++++++++++++++++-
> mm/cma.h | 3 +++
> 4 files changed, 45 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> ---
> base-commit: 948e195dfaa56e48eabda591f97630502ff7e27e
> change-id: 20260128-dmabuf-heap-cma-dmem-f4120a2df4a8
>
> Best regards,
> --
> Eric Chanudet <echanude@xxxxxxxxxx>
>