linux-kernel - Re: [RFC 4/8] p2pmem: Add debugfs "stats" file

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Date:   Tue, 4 Apr 2017 11:25:41 -0600
From:   Logan Gunthorpe <logang@...tatee.com>
To:     Sagi Grimberg <sagi@...mberg.me>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
        Steve Wise <swise@...ngridcomputing.com>,
        Stephen Bates <sbates@...thlin.com>,
        Max Gurtovoy <maxg@...lanox.com>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        Keith Busch <keith.busch@...el.com>,
        Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@...idianresearch.com>
Cc:     linux-pci@...r.kernel.org, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-nvme@...ts.infradead.org, linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-nvdimm@...ts.01.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 4/8] p2pmem: Add debugfs "stats" file



On 04/04/17 04:46 AM, Sagi Grimberg wrote:
> 
>> +    p2pmem_debugfs_root = debugfs_create_dir("p2pmem", NULL);
>> +    if (!p2pmem_debugfs_root)
>> +        pr_info("could not create debugfs entry, continuing\n");
>> +
> 
> Why continue? I think it'd be better to just fail it.

Yup, agreed. This should probably also be PTR_ERR as well.

> Besides, this can be safely squashed into patch 1.

Sure, the only real reason I kept it separate was it was authored by
Steve Wise.

Logan