On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 11:40:45AM +0900, Minchan Kim wrote: > Hi Ganesh, > > On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 10:26:12AM +0800, Ganesh Mahendran wrote: > > Hello Minchan > > > > 2014-12-20 10:25 GMT+08:00 Minchan Kim <minc...@kernel.org>: > > > Hey Ganesh, > > > > > > On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 09:43:34AM +0800, Ganesh Mahendran wrote: > > >> 2014-12-20 8:23 GMT+08:00 Minchan Kim <minc...@kernel.org>: > > >> > On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 04:17:56PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > >> >> On Sat, 20 Dec 2014 09:10:43 +0900 Minchan Kim <minc...@kernel.org> > > >> >> wrote: > > >> >> > > >> >> > > It involves rehashing a lengthy argument with Greg. > > >> >> > > > >> >> > Okay. Then, Ganesh, > > >> >> > please add warn message about duplicaed name possibility althoug > > >> >> > it's unlikely as it is. > > >> >> > > >> >> Oh, getting EEXIST is easy with this patch. Just create and destroy a > > >> >> pool 2^32 times and the counter wraps ;) It's hardly a serious issue > > >> >> for a debugging patch. > > >> > > > >> > I meant that I wanted to change from index to name passed from caller > > >> > like this > > >> > > > >> > zram: > > >> > zs_create_pool(GFP_NOIO | __GFP_HIGHMEM, > > >> > zram->disk->first_minor); > > >> > > > >> > So, duplication should be rare. :) > > >> > > >> We still can not know whether the name is duplicated if we do not > > >> change the debugfs API. > > >> The API does not return the errno to us. > > >> > > >> How about just zsmalloc decides the name of the pool-id, like pool-x. > > >> When the pool-id reaches > > >> 0xffff.ffff, we print warn message about duplicated name, and stop > > >> creating the debugfs entry > > >> for the user. > > > > > > The idea is from the developer point of view to implement thing easy > > > but my point is we should take care of user(ie, admin) rather than > > > developer(ie, we). > > > > Yes. I got it. > > > > > > > > For user, /sys/kernel/debug/zsmalloc/zram0 would be more > > > straightforward and even it doesn't need zram to export > > > /sys/block/zram0/pool-id. > > > > BTW, If we add a new argument in zs_create_pool(). It seems we also need to > > add argument in zs_zpool_create(). So, zpool/zswap/zbud will be > > modified to support > > the new API. > > Is that acceptable? > > I think it's doable. > The zpool_create_pool has already zswap_zpool_type. > Ccing maintainers for double check.
Late response, but fine by me. Seth > > Many thanks. > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > >> > > >> Thanks. > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in > > the body to majord...@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, > > see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . > > Don't email: <a href=mailto:"d...@kvack.org";> em...@kvack.org </a> > > -- > Kind regards, > Minchan Kim > > -- > To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in > the body to majord...@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, > see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . > Don't email: <a href=mailto:"d...@kvack.org";> em...@kvack.org </a> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
