Re: [PATCH v4] mm: cma: support sysfs

[Dmitry Osipenko]

19.03.2021 17:27, Greg Kroah-Hartman пишет:
> On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 05:19:47PM +0300, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
>> 19.03.2021 16:51, Dmitry Osipenko пишет:
>>> 19.03.2021 16:47, Greg Kroah-Hartman пишет:
>>>> On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 04:45:21PM +0300, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
>>>>> 19.03.2021 16:42, Greg Kroah-Hartman пишет:
>>>>>> On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 04:39:41PM +0300, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
>>>>>>> 19.03.2021 15:44, Dmitry Osipenko пишет:
>>>>>>> ...
>>>>>>>>>  #include <linux/debugfs.h>
>>>>>>>>> +#include <linux/kobject.h>
>>>>>>>>> +
>>>>>>>>> +struct cma_stat {
>>>>>>>>> +	spinlock_t lock;
>>>>>>>>> +	/* the number of CMA page successful allocations */
>>>>>>>>> +	unsigned long nr_pages_succeeded;
>>>>>>>>> +	/* the number of CMA page allocation failures */
>>>>>>>>> +	unsigned long nr_pages_failed;
>>>>>>>>> +	struct kobject kobj;
>>>>>>>>> +};
>>>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>>>>  struct cma {
>>>>>>>>>  	unsigned long   base_pfn;
>>>>>>>>> @@ -16,6 +26,9 @@ struct cma {
>>>>>>>>>  	struct debugfs_u32_array dfs_bitmap;
>>>>>>>>>  #endif
>>>>>>>>>  	char name[CMA_MAX_NAME];
>>>>>>>>> +#ifdef CONFIG_CMA_SYSFS
>>>>>>>>> +	struct cma_stat	*stat;
>>>>>>>>> +#endif
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> What is the point of allocating stat dynamically?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Because static kobjects make me cry.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I meant that it's already a part of struct cma, it looks like the stat
>>>>> could be embedded into struct cma and then kobj could be initialized
>>>>> separately.
>>>>
>>>> But that structure is statically allocated, so it can not be.  This has
>>>> been discussed in the past threads for when this was reviewed if you are
>>>> curious :)
>>>
>>> Indeed, I missed that cma_areas[] is static, thank you.
>>>
>>
>> And in this case should be better to make only the kobj allocated
>> dynamically instead of the whole cma_stat.
> 
> Why does it matter?
> 

Then initialization order won't be a problem.