dma-debug: Make leak-like behaviour apparent

Now that we can dynamically allocate DMA debug entries to cope with
drivers maintaining excessively large numbers of live mappings, a driver
which *does* actually have a bug leaking mappings (and is not unloaded)
will no longer trigger the "DMA-API: debugging out of memory - disabling"
message until it gets to actual kernel OOM conditions, which means it
could go unnoticed for a while. To that end, let's inform the user each
time the pool has grown to a multiple of its initial size, which should
make it apparent that they either have a leak or might want to increase
the preallocation size.

Signed-off-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>
Tested-by: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/DMA-API.txt b/Documentation/DMA-API.txt
index 0fcb7561af1e..7a7d8a415ce8 100644
--- a/Documentation/DMA-API.txt
+++ b/Documentation/DMA-API.txt
@@ -747,7 +747,11 @@ driver afterwards. This filter can be disabled or changed later using debugfs.
 When the code disables itself at runtime this is most likely because it ran
 out of dma_debug_entries and was unable to allocate more on-demand. 65536
 entries are preallocated at boot - if this is too low for you boot with
-'dma_debug_entries=<your_desired_number>' to overwrite the default.
+'dma_debug_entries=<your_desired_number>' to overwrite the default. The
+code will print to the kernel log each time it has dynamically allocated
+as many entries as were initially preallocated. This is to indicate that a
+larger preallocation size may be appropriate, or if it happens continually
+that a driver may be leaking mappings.
 
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