Re: [PATCH 0/3] mm: cma: /proc/cmainfo

From: Stefan Strogin
Date: Thu Jan 22 2015 - 10:44:18 EST


Hello Pavel,

On 02/01/15 08:11, Pavel Machek wrote:
> On Mon 2014-12-29 11:36:39, Minchan Kim wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 26, 2014 at 05:39:01PM +0300, Stefan I. Strogin wrote:
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> Here is a patch set that adds /proc/cmainfo.
>>>
>>> When compiled with CONFIG_CMA_DEBUG /proc/cmainfo will contain information
>>> about about total, used, maximum free contiguous chunk and all currently
>>> allocated contiguous buffers in CMA regions. The information about allocated
>>> CMA buffers includes pid, comm, allocation latency and stacktrace at the
>>> moment of allocation.
> We should not add new non-process related files in
> /proc. So... NAK. Should this go to debugfs instead?

As you say, I'll move it to debugfs and also split it by CMA region.
Something like: /sys/kernel/debug/cma/*/allocated
Thanks.

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