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dma/swiotlb: decouple high watermark tracking from CONFIG_DEBUG_FS

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Under heavy concurrent DMA traffic on CoCo VMs, inc_used_and_hiwater()
performs an atomic_long_add_return() plus a CAS loop on the global
used_hiwater, and dec_used() performs an atomic_long_sub() on total_used.
All CPUs contend on the same cacheline, causing measurable throughput
degradation at scale.

Historically these counters were only compiled in under CONFIG_DEBUG_FS,
which means production kernels with debugfs paid the atomic overhead
unconditionally. Make the tracking boot-time opt-in instead so that it
is disabled by default with near-zero overhead via static_call, and can
be enabled via "swiotlb=track_hiwater" parameter on demand for debugging.

Note that when CONFIG_DEBUG_FS is enabled but hiwater tracking is disabled,
the "io_tlb_used" metric reports an approximate value rather than an
instantaneously exact one.

Suggested-by: Fan Du <fan.du@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jun Miao <jun.miao@intel.com>
Co-developed-by: Fan Du <fan.du@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Fan Du <fan.du@intel.com>
Tested-by: chenhuguanshen <chenhgs@chinatelecom.cn>
Signed-off-by: chenhuguanshen <chenhgs@chinatelecom.cn>
Reviewed-by: Michael Kelley <mhklinux@outlook.com>
Tested-by: Michael Kelley <mhklinux@outlook.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260812070459.637077-1-frankchen158@126.com
Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
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chenhuguanshen 2026-08-12 15:04:59 +08:00 • committed by Marek Szyprowski
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