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Date:   Fri, 7 Jul 2023 15:22:10 +0100
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To:     Pintu Agarwal <pintu.ping@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] mm: cma: print cma name as well in cma_alloc debug
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On Fri, Jul 07, 2023 at 07:46:31PM +0530, Pintu Agarwal wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Jul 2023 at 19:40, Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> wrote:
> > > One more question from here:
> > > pr_debug("%s(cma %p, name: %s, count %lu, align %d)\n", __func__,
> > >                 (void *)cma, cma->name, count, align);
> > >
> > > Do we really need this "cma %p" printing ?
> > > I hardly check it and simply rely on name and count.
> >
> > Printing pointers is almost always a bad idea.  Printing the base_pfn
> > might be a good idea to distinguish CMAs which happen to have the
> > same name?
> >
> No there is no name there, it's just a ptrval
> cma: cma_alloc(cma (ptrval), name: reserved, count 64, align 6)

You misunderstand me.  I don't know how CMAs get their name.  Is it not
possible for two CMAs to have the same name as each other?