Re: [PATCH v5 05/16] swiotlb: Add restricted DMA pool initialization

[Steven Price <steven.price@xxxxxxx>]

On 26/04/2021 17:37, Claire Chang wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 7:34 PM Steven Price <steven.price@xxxxxxx> wrote:
[...]
> > But even then if it's not and we have the situation where debugfs==NULL
> > then the debugfs_create_dir() here will cause a subsequent attempt in
> > swiotlb_create_debugfs() to fail (directory already exists) leading to
> > mem->debugfs being assigned an error value. I suspect the creation of
> > the debugfs directory needs to be separated from io_tlb_default_mem
> > being set.
> debugfs creation should move into the if (!mem) {...} above to avoid
> duplication.
> I think having a separated struct dentry pointer for the default
> debugfs should be enough?
>
> if (!debugfs)
>      debugfs = debugfs_create_dir("swiotlb", NULL);
> swiotlb_create_debugfs(mem, rmem->name, debugfs);
Yes that looks like a good solution to me. Although I'd name the 
variable something a bit more descriptive than just "debugfs" e.g. 
"debugfs_dir" or "debugfs_root".
Thanks,

Steve