Re: [PATCH] mm/cma_debug: show complete cma name in debugfs directories

From: Charan Teja Kalla
Date: Thu Aug 11 2022 - 02:43:51 EST


Thanks Andrew!!

On 8/11/2022 3:01 AM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Aug 2022 22:58:05 +0530 Charan Teja Kalla <quic_charante@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Currently only 12 characters of the cma name is being used as the debug
>> directories where as the cma name can be of length CMA_MAX_NAME(=64)
>> characters. One side problem with this is having 2 cma's with first
>> common 12 characters would end up in trying to create directories with
>> same name and fails with -EEXIST thus can limit cma debug functionality.
>
> I guess so. There might be back-compatibility issues, but it's
> debugfs...
>
>
>> Also drop 'cma-' prefix for the cma debug directories as they are
>> clearly evident that they are for cma debug through creating them in
>> /sys/kernel/debug/cma/ path.
>
> I guess so. But please run `grep -r cma- Documentation'

I see the Documentation/admin-guide/mm/cma_debugfs.rst is not upto date.
Commit f318dd083c81 ("cma: Store a name in the cma structure") moved the
cma names from int to strings but no update to this document.

Will fix the Documentation part in V2.

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