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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	joaodias@google.com, willy@infradead.org, surenb@google.com,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] mm: cma: support sysfs
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2021 22:09:57 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210303220957.0525de2aebc2c55ad9435cdc@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YEA6BGHO0I1hSjLq@google.com>

On Wed, 3 Mar 2021 17:38:12 -0800 Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> wrote:

> > >  #endif
> > >  	char name[CMA_MAX_NAME];
> > > +#ifdef CONFIG_CMA_SYSFS
> > > +	struct cma_stat	*stat;
> > > +#endif
> > >  };
> > 
> > Why aren't the stat fields simply placed directly into struct cma_stat?
> 
> It have a related long discussion.
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/YCIoHBGELFWAyfMi@kroah.com/
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/YCLLKDEQ4NYqb5Y5@kroah.com/
> 
> TLDR - Greg really want to see kobject stuff working as dynamic
> property.

Please add to changelog?

> > 
> > ?
> > 
> > > +	if (!cma_stats) {
> > > +		pr_err("failed to create cma_stats\n");
> > 
> > Probably unneeded - the ENOMEM stack backtrace will point straight here.
> 
> I failed to find the point you mentioned to print backtrace.
> Where code do you mean to dump the backtrace?

The thing which __GFP_NOWARN disables.


  reply	other threads:[~2021-03-04  6:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-03 20:50 [PATCH v3] mm: cma: support sysfs Minchan Kim
2021-03-03 22:44 ` Andrew Morton
2021-03-04  1:38   ` Minchan Kim
2021-03-04  6:09     ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2021-03-04 15:39       ` Minchan Kim
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2021-02-10  7:55 Minchan Kim
2021-02-10  8:02 ` Greg KH
2021-02-10  8:05 ` John Hubbard
2021-02-10 15:59   ` Minchan Kim

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