From: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: m.szyprowski@samsung.com, iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, cai@gmx.us, salil.mehta@huawei.com,
john.garry@huawei.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/8] dma-debug: Refactor dma_debug_entry allocation
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2018 18:10:47 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9accc5fe-4aae-ff7d-a234-f27167c49614@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181206142326.GA24642@lst.de>
On 06/12/2018 14:23, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> +static int dma_debug_add_entries(u32 num_entries, gfp_t gfp)
>> +{
>> + struct dma_debug_entry *entry, *next_entry;
>> + LIST_HEAD(tmp);
>> + int i;
>> +
>> + for (i = 0; i < num_entries; ++i) {
>> + entry = kzalloc(sizeof(*entry), gfp);
>> + if (!entry)
>> + goto out_err;
>> +
>> + list_add_tail(&entry->list, &tmp);
>> + }
>> +
>> + list_splice(&tmp, &free_entries);
>> + num_free_entries += num_entries;
>> + nr_total_entries += num_entries;
>
> The adding to a local list and splicing seems a bit pointless if we
> do it all under lock anyway. Either we change the locking in
> dma_debug_resize_entries and your upcoming automatic allocation that
> we only do it over the splice and counter adjustment, which would
> have the advantage of allowing freeing of entries in parallel to these
> allocations, or we could just drop the local tmp list.
AFAICS the tmp list wasn't about locking as much as meaning that if
kzalloc() failed at any point, we can free the partial allocation and
back out without disturbing free_entries at all - that still makes sense
to me up until patch #8 where we embrace the "never free anything"
paradigm and rip out the final traces.
That said, maybe I should just drop the refactoring of
dma_debug_resize_entries() now that I'm deleting it as part of the same
series anyway - then I guess I squash what's left of this patch into #4
and bring forward some of the simplification from #8 to start with.
Would that be more agreeable?
Robin.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-12-06 18:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-12-05 19:56 [PATCH v2 0/8] dma-debug cleanup and dynamic allocation Robin Murphy
2018-12-05 19:56 ` [PATCH v2 1/8] dma-debug: Use pr_fmt() Robin Murphy
2018-12-05 19:56 ` [PATCH v2 2/8] dma-debug: Expose nr_total_entries in debugfs Robin Murphy
2018-12-06 14:14 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-12-05 19:56 ` [PATCH v2 3/8] dma-debug: Refactor dma_debug_entry allocation Robin Murphy
2018-12-06 14:23 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-12-06 18:10 ` Robin Murphy [this message]
2018-12-06 18:46 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-12-05 19:56 ` [PATCH v2 4/8] dma-debug: Dynamically expand the dma_debug_entry pool Robin Murphy
2018-12-06 14:24 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-12-06 18:31 ` Robin Murphy
2018-12-05 19:56 ` [PATCH v2 5/8] dma-debug: Make leak-like behaviour apparent Robin Murphy
2018-12-06 14:24 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-12-05 19:56 ` [PATCH v2 6/8] x86/dma/amd-gart: Stop resizing dma_debug_entry pool Robin Murphy
2018-12-06 14:25 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-12-05 19:56 ` [PATCH v2 7/8] dma/debug: Remove dma_debug_resize_entries() Robin Murphy
2018-12-06 14:25 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-12-05 19:56 ` [PATCH v2 8/8] dma-debug: Batch dma_debug_entry allocation Robin Murphy
2018-12-06 14:27 ` Christoph Hellwig
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