Re: [PATCH 2/3] mm: cma: introduce /proc/cmainfo

[Stefan Strogin]

Hello Laura,

On 30/12/14 00:11, Laura Abbott wrote:
>
> This seems better suited to debugfs over procfs, especially since the
> option can be turned off. It would be helpful to break it
> down by cma region as well to make it easier on systems with a lot
> of regions.
>
> Thanks,
> Laura
>

I thought that cmainfo is very similar to vmallocinfo, therefore put it
to procfs. However it seems I have no other choice than debugfs as Pavel
Machek wrote :-)
> We should not add new non-process related files in /proc.
(https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/1/2/6)

And thanks, I agree that breaking it down by CMA region would be useful.

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