Re: [Linuxarm] [PATCH 1/2] hisi_acc_vfio_pci: Add debugfs to migration driver

From: John Garry
Date: Fri Oct 14 2022 - 05:20:20 EST


On 14/10/2022 03:57, Longfang Liu wrote:
+static void hisi_acc_vf_debugfs_init(struct hisi_acc_vf_core_device *hisi_acc_vdev)
+{
+ struct pci_dev *vf_pdev = hisi_acc_vdev->vf_dev;
+ struct device *dev = &vf_pdev->dev;
+ int ret;
+
+ if (!atomic_read(&hisi_acc_root_ref))
+ hisi_acc_debugfs_root = debugfs_create_dir("hisi_vfio_acc", NULL);
+ atomic_inc(&hisi_acc_root_ref);
+

This looks totally racy, such that I wonder why even bother using an atomic for hisi_acc_root_ref. Indeed, why is hisi_acc_debugfs_root not created in the driver module init?

Thanks,
John