On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 03:02:24AM +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 12:50:50PM -0700, Minchan Kim wrote:
> > + /* the number of CMA page successful allocations */
> > + atomic64_t nr_pages_succeeded;
>
> > +void cma_sysfs_alloc_pages_count(struct cma *cma, size_t count)
> > +{
> > + atomic64_add(count, &cma->nr_pages_succeeded);
> > +}
>
> I don't understand. A size_t is a byte count. But the variable is called
> 'nr_pages'. So which is it, a byte count or a page count?
It's page count. I followed the cma_alloc interface since it has
size_t count variable for nr_pages.
Let's go with unsigned long nr_pages:
void cma_sysfs_alloc_pages_count(struct cma *cma, unsigned long
nr_pages)
>
> > +static ssize_t alloc_pages_success_show(struct kobject *kobj,
> > + struct kobj_attribute *attr, char *buf)
> > +{
> > + struct cma_kobject *cma_kobj = container_of(kobj,
> > + struct cma_kobject, kobj);
> > + struct cma *cma = cma_kobj->cma;
> > +
> > + return sysfs_emit(buf, "%llu\n",
> > + atomic64_read(&cma->nr_pages_succeeded));
>
> ... if it's in bytes, it should probably be reported in kilobytes
> and be suffixed with a 'K' like many other stats.
>
