linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 2/3] pci/doe: Use devm_xa

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Date:   Fri, 8 Jul 2022 15:49:51 +0100
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To:     Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@...el.com>
Cc:     Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@...nel.org>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
        Alison Schofield <alison.schofield@...el.com>,
        Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@...el.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-cxl@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-pci@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 2/3] pci/doe: Use devm_xa_init()

On Fri, Jul 08, 2022 at 07:45:12AM -0700, Ira Weiny wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 07, 2022 at 11:06:46AM -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 05, 2022 at 04:21:58PM -0700, ira.weiny@...el.com wrote:
> > > From: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@...el.com>
> > > 
> > > The XArray being used to store the protocols does not even store
> > > allocated objects.
> > 
> > I guess the point is that the doe_mb->prots XArray doesn't reference
> > any other objects that would need to be freed when destroying
> > doe_mb->prots?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> > A few more words here would make the commit log more
> > useful to non-XArray experts.
> 
> I'll update this to be more clear in a V1 if it goes that far.  But to clarify
> here; the protocol information is a u16 vendor id and u8 protocol number.  So
> we are able to store that in the unsigned long value that would normally be a
> pointer to something in the XArray.

Er.  Signed long.  I can't find drivers/pci/doe.c in linux-next, so
I have no idea if you're doing something wrong.  But what you said here
sounds wrong.