Re: [PATCH v10 3/3] mm: add anonymous vma name refcounting

[Michal Hocko]

On Wed 06-10-21 08:01:56, Suren Baghdasaryan wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 6, 2021 at 2:27 AM David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On 06.10.21 10:27, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > > On Tue 05-10-21 23:57:36, John Hubbard wrote:
> > > [...]
> > >> 1) Yes, just leave the strings in the kernel, that's simple and
> > >> it works, and the alternatives don't really help your case nearly
> > >> enough.
> > >
> > > I do not have a strong opinion. Strings are easier to use but they
> > > are more involved and the necessity of kref approach just underlines
> > > that. There are going to be new allocations and that always can lead
> > > to surprising side effects.  These are small (80B at maximum) so the
> > > overall footpring shouldn't all that large by default but it can grow
> > > quite large with a very high max_map_count. There are workloads which
> > > really require the default to be set high (e.g. heavy mremap users). So
> > > if anything all those should be __GFP_ACCOUNT and memcg accounted.
> > >
> > > I do agree that numbers are just much more simpler from accounting,
> > > performance and implementation POV.
> >
> > +1
> >
> > I can understand that having a string can be quite beneficial e.g., when
> > dumping mmaps. If only user space knows the id <-> string mapping, that
> > can be quite tricky.
> >
> > However, I also do wonder if there would be a way to standardize/reserve
> > ids, such that a given id always corresponds to a specific user. If we
> > use an uint64_t for an id, there would be plenty room to reserve ids ...
> >
> > I'd really prefer if we can avoid using strings and instead using ids.
> 
> I wish it was that simple and for some names like [anon:.bss] or
> [anon:dalvik-zygote space] reserving a unique id would work, however
> some names like [anon:dalvik-/system/framework/boot-core-icu4j.art]
> are generated dynamically at runtime and include package name.
> Packages are constantly evolving, new ones are developed, names can
> change, etc. So assigning a unique id for these names is not really
> feasible.

I still do not follow. If you need a globaly consistent naming then
you need clear rules for that, no matter whether that is number or a
file. How do you handle this with strings currently?

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs