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    scsi: hisi_sas: Allocate DFX memory during dump trigger · 63f0733d
    Yihang Li authored
    Currently, if CONFIG_SCSI_HISI_SAS_DEBUGFS_DEFAULT_ENABLE is enabled, the
    memory space used by DFX is allocated during device initialization, which
    occupies a large number of memory resources. The memory usage before and
    after the driver is loaded is as follows:
    
    Memory usage before the driver is loaded:
    $ free -m
             total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
    Mem:     867352        2578      864037          11         735  861681
    Swap:    4095           0        4095
    
    Memory usage after the driver which include 4 HBAs is loaded:
    $ insmod hisi_sas_v3_hw.ko
    $ free -m
             total        used        free      shared  buff/cache	available
    Mem:     867352        4760      861848          11	  743   859495
    Swap:    4095           0        4095
    
    The driver with 4 HBAs connected will allocate about 110 MB of memory
    without enabling debugfs.
    
    Therefore, to avoid wasting memory resources, DFX memory is allocated
    during dump triggering. The dump may fail due to memory allocation
    failure. After this change, each dump costs about 10 MB of memory, and each
    dump lasts about 100 ms.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarYihang Li <liyihang9@huawei.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarXiang Chen <chenxiang66@hisilicon.com>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1694571327-78697-4-git-send-email-chenxiang66@hisilicon.comSigned-off-by: default avatarMartin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
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