linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm/zpool: add name argument to create zpool

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Message-ID: <20141228235637.GA27095@bbox>
Date:	Mon, 29 Dec 2014 08:56:37 +0900
From:	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
To:	Ganesh Mahendran <opensource.ganesh@...il.com>
Cc:	ngupta@...are.org, sjennings@...iantweb.net, ddstreet@...e.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm/zpool: add name argument to create zpool

On Fri, Dec 26, 2014 at 09:04:55PM +0800, Ganesh Mahendran wrote:
> Currently the underlay of zpool: zsmalloc/zbud, do not know
> who creates them. There is not a method to let zsmalloc/zbud
> find which caller they belogs to.
> 
> Now we want to add statistics collection in zsmalloc. We need
> to name the debugfs dir for each pool created. The way suggested
> by Minchan Kim is to use a name passed by caller(such as zram)
> to create the zsmalloc pool.
>     /sys/kernel/debug/zsmalloc/zram0
> 
> This patch adds a argument *name* to zs_create_pool() and other
> related functions.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ganesh Mahendran <opensource.ganesh@...il.com>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>

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Kind regards,
Minchan Kim
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