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SubjectRe: [RFCv5 3/9] mm: cma: Added SysFS support
Hello Greg,

Thanks for reviewing the sysfs part. Actually, I was never really sure
if I shouldn't rather put this code to debugfs and you got me convinced
that I should. Sysfs somehow looked more appealing from kernel's API
point of view -- things seem to be more organised in sysfs than in
debugfs. It seems I'll have to port it to debugfs after all

Nonetheless, a few responses to your comments:

> On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 08:33:53AM +0200, Michal Nazarewicz wrote:
>> + The "allocators" file list all registered allocators.
>> + Allocators with no name are listed as a single minus
>> + sign.

On Mon, 06 Sep 2010 23:07:47 +0200, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> So this returns more than one value?

Aren't thing like cpufreq governors listed in a single sysfs file?
I remember there was such a file somewhere. Has that been made
deprecated? I cannot seem to find any information on that.

>> + The "regions" directory list all reserved regions.
>
> Same here?

regions is actually a directory with subdirectories for each
region. ;)

>> +static ssize_t cma_sysfs_region_name_show(struct cma_region *reg, char *page)
>> +{
>> + return reg->name ? snprintf(page, PAGE_SIZE, "%s\n", reg->name) : 0;
>> +}

> Is a name field ever really going to be bigger than a page?

I prefer being on the safe side -- I have no idea what user will provide
as region name so I assume as little as possible. For numeric values you
are right that snprintf() is a bit paranoid, still I see no good reason
why not to use it.

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