[PATCH] staging: android: ion: Add per-heap counters

Greg KH gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Mon Sep 10 15:57:49 UTC 2018


On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 06:51:18PM +0300, Alexey Skidanov wrote:
> On 09/10/2018 05:21 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 01:46:13PM +0300, Alexey Skidanov wrote:
> >> On 09/10/2018 11:27 AM, Greg KH wrote:
> > And you also moved debugfs files (you didn't comment on that comment),
> > which will probably break tools that expect the files to be in one
> > place, right?  
> Right. I assumed that for staging modules we still can change user
> interface. Otherwise, how to explain this change 15c6098cfec5 ("staging:
> android: ion: Remove ion_handle and ion_client")?

Yes, we can change them, but I asked if there were existing scripts that
would break with this change, which isn't good.  I know there are a
number of android debug/crash tools/scripts that dig in debugfs to get
lots of information, so breaking them is usually not nice :)

thanks,

greg k-h


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