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Date:   Mon, 5 Apr 2021 17:29:08 +0200
From:   Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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        Eric Whitney <enwlinux@gmail.com>,
        Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>, Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5.10 004/126] ext4: shrink race window in
 ext4_should_retry_alloc()
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Hi!

> From: Eric Whitney <enwlinux@gmail.com>

> A per filesystem percpu counter exported via sysfs is added to allow
> users or developers to track the number of times the retry limit is
> exceeded without resorting to debugging methods.  This should provide
> some insight into worst case retry behavior.

This adds new counter exported via sysfs, but no documentation of that
counter...

Best regards,
								Pavel

> @@ -257,6 +259,7 @@ static struct attribute *ext4_attrs[] =3D {
>  	ATTR_LIST(session_write_kbytes),
>  	ATTR_LIST(lifetime_write_kbytes),
>  	ATTR_LIST(reserved_clusters),
> +	ATTR_LIST(sra_exceeded_retry_limit),
>  	ATTR_LIST(inode_readahead_blks),
>  	ATTR_LIST(inode_goal),
>  	ATTR_LIST(mb_stats),

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