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

Alexey Skidanov alexey.skidanov at intel.com
Mon Sep 10 16:17:47 UTC 2018



On 09/10/2018 06:57 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> 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 :)

So, maybe we can address this question to Android guys? Who may help
with this issue?
> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h
> 

Thanks,
Alexey


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