Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752802AbaLTBng (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Dec 2014 20:43:36 -0500 Received: from mail-ob0-f177.google.com ([209.85.214.177]:60369 "EHLO mail-ob0-f177.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751792AbaLTBnf (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Dec 2014 20:43:35 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20141220002303.GD11975@blaptop> References: <1418993719-14291-1-git-send-email-opensource.ganesh@gmail.com> <20141219143244.1e5fabad8b6733204486f5bc@linux-foundation.org> <20141219233937.GA11975@blaptop> <20141219154548.3aa4cc02b3322f926aa4c1d6@linux-foundation.org> <20141219235852.GB11975@blaptop> <20141219160648.5cea8a6b0c764caa6100a585@linux-foundation.org> <20141220001043.GC11975@blaptop> <20141219161756.bcf7421acb4bc7a286c1afa3@linux-foundation.org> <20141220002303.GD11975@blaptop> Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2014 09:43:34 +0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] mm/zsmalloc: add statistics support From: Ganesh Mahendran To: Minchan Kim Cc: Andrew Morton , Nitin Gupta , Linux-MM , linux-kernel Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 2014-12-20 8:23 GMT+08:00 Minchan Kim : > On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 04:17:56PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: >> On Sat, 20 Dec 2014 09:10:43 +0900 Minchan Kim wrote: >> >> > > It involves rehashing a lengthy argument with Greg. >> > >> > Okay. Then, Ganesh, >> > please add warn message about duplicaed name possibility althoug >> > it's unlikely as it is. >> >> Oh, getting EEXIST is easy with this patch. Just create and destroy a >> pool 2^32 times and the counter wraps ;) It's hardly a serious issue >> for a debugging patch. > > I meant that I wanted to change from index to name passed from caller like this > > zram: > zs_create_pool(GFP_NOIO | __GFP_HIGHMEM, zram->disk->first_minor); > > So, duplication should be rare. :) We still can not know whether the name is duplicated if we do not change the debugfs API. The API does not return the errno to us. How about just zsmalloc decides the name of the pool-id, like pool-x. When the pool-id reaches 0xffff.ffff, we print warn message about duplicated name, and stop creating the debugfs entry for the user. Thanks. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/