linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] xen/granttable: Support sub-page grants

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Date:	Wed, 7 Dec 2011 09:56:23 +0000
From:	Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@...rix.com>
To:	ANNIE LI <annie.li@...cle.com>
CC:	"xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com" <xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"konrad.wilk@...cle.com" <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
	"jeremy@...p.org" <jeremy@...p.org>,
	"kurt.hackel@...cle.com" <kurt.hackel@...cle.com>,
	Paul Durrant <Paul.Durrant@...rix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] xen/granttable: Support sub-page grants

On Wed, 2011-12-07 at 03:36 +0000, ANNIE LI wrote:
> Thanks for your reviewing, Ian.
> >>   EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(gnttab_grant_foreign_access);
> >>
> >> +int gnttab_grant_foreign_access_subpage_v2(domid_t domid, unsigned long frame,
> >> +					   int flags, unsigned page_off,
> >> +					   unsigned length)
> > Please drop the v2 suffixes on the public functions.
> OK, the initial interface is without v2 suffixes. It was added in order 
> to reminder user the interfaces are only available for grant table v2.
> But I am fine to remove it, and following ops fn pointers are better.
> > Any reason not to route these via the ops table for consistency with all
> > the other ops? Then your availability check becomes a test for NULL fn
> > pointer rather than a specific version.
> Ok, it is good.
> How about following implements?

Looks to be along the right lines. Thanks.

> gnttab_v1_ops = {
>   ...
> .access_subpage = NULL;
> .access_ref_subpage = NULL;
> .access_trans = NULL;
> .access_ref_trans = NULL;
> }

I think you can omit these since NULL is the default but perhaps
explicitly listing them is useful in a self documenting type way.

[...]
> 
> Same operations for access_ref_subpage, access_trans and access_ref_trans.
> 
> bool gnttab_subpage_available()
> {
>       return (gnttab_interface->access_subpage != NULL);
> }
> 
> bool gnttab_subpage_available()
Typo:       ..trans..
> {
>       return (gnttab_interface->access_trans != NULL);
> }

Ian.

> 
> Thanks
> Annie


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