[RFCv5 3/9] mm: cma: Added SysFS support
From: Michał Nazarewicz <hidden>
Date: 2010-09-07 05:32:26
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Hello Greg, Thanks for reviewing the sysfs part. Actually, I was never really sure if I shouldn't rather put this code to debugfs and you got me convinced that I should. Sysfs somehow looked more appealing from kernel's API point of view -- things seem to be more organised in sysfs than in debugfs. It seems I'll have to port it to debugfs after all Nonetheless, a few responses to your comments:
On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 08:33:53AM +0200, Michal Nazarewicz wrote:quoted
+ The "allocators" file list all registered allocators. + Allocators with no name are listed as a single minus + sign.
On Mon, 06 Sep 2010 23:07:47 +0200, Greg KH [off-list ref] wrote:
So this returns more than one value?
Aren't thing like cpufreq governors listed in a single sysfs file? I remember there was such a file somewhere. Has that been made deprecated? I cannot seem to find any information on that.
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+ The "regions" directory list all reserved regions.Same here?
regions is actually a directory with subdirectories for each region. ;)
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+static ssize_t cma_sysfs_region_name_show(struct cma_region *reg, char *page) +{ + return reg->name ? snprintf(page, PAGE_SIZE, "%s\n", reg->name) : 0; +}
Is a name field ever really going to be bigger than a page?
I prefer being on the safe side -- I have no idea what user will provide as region name so I assume as little as possible. For numeric values you are right that snprintf() is a bit paranoid, still I see no good reason why not to use it. -- Best regards, _ _ | Humble Liege of Serenely Enlightened Majesty of o' \,=./ `o | Computer Science, Micha? "mina86" Nazarewicz (o o) +----[mina86*mina86.com]---[mina86*jabber.org]----ooO--(_)--Ooo--