Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] mm,page_owner: Filter out stacks by a threshold counter

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Mon Sep 05 2022 - 08:02:19 EST


On Mon 05-09-22 18:54:59, Ammar Faizi wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Sep 2022 13:31:02 +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
[...]
> > > static ssize_t write_page_owner_threshold(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
> > > size_t count, loff_t *pos)
> > > {
> > > char kbuf[21];
> > > int ret;
> > >
> > > count = min_t(size_t, count, sizeof(kbuf));
> > > if (copy_from_user(kbuf, buf, count))
> > > return -EFAULT;
> > >
> > > kbuf[count - 1] = '\0';
> > > ret = kstrtoul(kbuf, 10, &threshold);
> > > return ret ? ret : count;
> > > }
> >
> > Isn't there a proc_dointvec counterpart for debugfs?
>
> Ah, well. If that's much simpler, we should go with that. I am not
> familiar proc_dointvec() interface, so I couldn't say about it.

Just to clarify. proc_dointvec is rather specific to proc/sysctl
interface. I was too lazy to look whether debugfs has something similar
available. Maybe writing to debugfs is not all that common but I would
expect a shared code to write a simple value would be there.

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs