linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] memstick: add support for legacy memorysticks

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Date:	Sat, 11 Dec 2010 00:27:08 +0200
From:	Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@...il.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Alex Dubov <oakad@...oo.com>, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] memstick: add support for legacy memorysticks

On Thu, 2010-12-09 at 13:09 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu,  9 Dec 2010 04:42:25 +0200
> Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@...il.com> wrote:
> 
> > +/*
> > + * Advance scatterlist by 'consumed' bytes
> > + * Returns new scatterlist, or NULL if can't advance that much
> > + */
> > +static struct scatterlist *sg_advance(struct scatterlist *sg, int consumed)
> > +{
> > +	while (consumed >= sg->length) {
> > +		consumed -= sg->length;
> > +
> > +		sg = sg_next(sg);
> > +		if (!sg)
> > +			break;
> > +	}
> > +
> > +	WARN_ON(!sg && consumed);
> > +
> > +	if (!sg)
> > +		return NULL;
> > +
> > +	sg->offset += consumed;
> > +	sg->length -= consumed;
> > +
> > +	if (sg->offset >= PAGE_SIZE) {
> > +		struct page *page =
> > +			nth_page(sg_page(sg), sg->offset / PAGE_SIZE);
> > +		sg_set_page(sg, page, sg->length, sg->offset % PAGE_SIZE);
> > +	}
> > +
> > +	return sg;
> > +}
> > +
> > +/* Calculate number of sg entries in sg list */
> > +static int sg_nents(struct scatterlist *sg)
> > +{
> > +	int nents = 0;
> > +	while (sg) {
> > +		nents++;
> > +		sg = sg_next(sg);
> > +	}
> > +
> > +	return nents;
> > +}
> > +
> > +/* Calculate total lenght of scatterlist */
> 
> (typo)
> 
> > +static int sg_total_len(struct scatterlist *sg)
> > +{
> > +	int len = 0;
> > +	while (sg) {
> > +		len += sg->length;
> > +		sg = sg_next(sg);
> > +	}
> > +	return len;
> > +}
> > +
> > +/* Compare contents of an sg to a buffer */
> > +static bool sg_compare_to_buffer(struct scatterlist *sg, u8 *buffer, size_t len)
> > +{
> > +	unsigned long flags;
> > +	int retval = 0;
> > +	struct sg_mapping_iter miter;
> > +
> > +	if (sg_total_len(sg) < len)
> > +		return 1;
> > +
> > +	local_irq_save(flags);
> > +	sg_miter_start(&miter, sg, sg_nents(sg),
> > +				SG_MITER_ATOMIC | SG_MITER_FROM_SG);
> > +
> > +	while (sg_miter_next(&miter) && len > 0) {
> > +
> > +		int cmplen = min(miter.length, len);
> > +		if (memcmp(miter.addr, buffer, cmplen)) {
> > +			retval = 1;
> > +			break;
> > +		}
> > +
> > +		buffer += cmplen;
> > +		len -= cmplen;
> > +	}
> > +
> > +	sg_miter_stop(&miter);
> > +	local_irq_restore(flags);
> > +	return retval;
> > +}
> 
> I think I mentioned this before, but ...  it's really bad that the
> above functions appear in a particular device driver.  They are, to
> varying degrees, independent of that driver and should be provided by
> the sglist core code.
I agree with you.
However, note that Alex's mspro_blk.c, also contains the above logic, it
is just not separated from the code.
I don't mind adding these to scatterlist code.



> 
> Also, the local_irq_save/restore in sg_compare_to_buffer() is quite
> mysterious and should have a comment explaining why it is there.  Once
> that's done, I might understand why it isn't a bug on SMP machines ;)
Its is done to be able to use kmap_atomic.
I think I can use sg_mitter there, I will try to.

Best regards,
	Maxim Levitsky.




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