linux-kernel - Please consider using __vring_new_virtqueue in mic

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Date:	Tue, 26 Apr 2016 19:27:07 -0700
From:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
To:	Sudeep Dutt <sudeep.dutt@...el.com>,
	Ashutosh Dixit <ashutosh.dixit@...el.com>,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Please consider using __vring_new_virtqueue in mic_virtio

mic_virtio has a big hack to set up a custom ring, like this:

        /*
         * To reassign the used ring here we are directly accessing
         * struct vring_virtqueue which is a private data structure
         * in virtio_ring.c. At the minimum, a BUILD_BUG_ON() in
         * vring_new_virtqueue() would ensure that
         *  (&vq->vring == (struct vring *) (&vq->vq + 1));
         */
        vr = (struct vring *)(vq + 1);
        vr->used = used;\

I added a more flexible API __vring_new_virtqueue that you might be
able to use to clean this up in:

commit 2a2d1382fe9dccfce6f9c60a9c9fd2f0fe5bcf2b
Author: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
Date:   Tue Feb 2 21:46:37 2016 -0800

    virtio: Add improved queue allocation API

Please consider either using it or trying to use
vring_create_virtqueue and updating it to fit your needs if
appropriate.

I didn't btry to do it myself because I don't have the hardware.

Thanks,
Andy