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Date:	Thu, 3 Apr 2014 10:48:58 +0100
From:	David Vrabel <david.vrabel@...rix.com>
To:	Paul Durrant <Paul.Durrant@...rix.com>
CC:	Zoltan Kiss <zoltan.kiss@...rix.com>,
	Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@...rix.com>,
	Wei Liu <wei.liu2@...rix.com>,
	"xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org" <xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org>,
	"konrad.wilk@...cle.com" <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
	"boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com" <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>,
	David Vrabel <david.vrabel@...rix.com>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Stefano Stabellini <Stefano.Stabellini@...rix.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jonathan Davies <Jonathan.Davies@...rix.com>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] grant-table, xen-netback: Introduce helper
 functions for grant copy operations

On 03/04/14 09:12, Paul Durrant wrote:
> Zoltan Kiss wrote:
>>
>> Create helper functions for grant copy operations and use them in netback.
>>
[...]
>> --- a/drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c
>> +++ b/drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c
>> @@ -275,23 +275,29 @@ static void xenvif_gop_frag_copy(struct xenvif *vif,
>> struct sk_buff *skb,
>>  			bytes = MAX_BUFFER_OFFSET - npo->copy_off;
>>
>>  		copy_gop = npo->copy + npo->copy_prod++;
>> -		copy_gop->flags = GNTCOPY_dest_gref;
>> -		copy_gop->len = bytes;
>>
>>  		if (foreign_vif) {
>> -			copy_gop->source.domid = foreign_vif->domid;
>> -			copy_gop->source.u.ref = foreign_gref;
>> -			copy_gop->flags |= GNTCOPY_source_gref;
>> +			gnttab_set_copy_op_ref_to_ref(copy_gop,
>> +						      foreign_gref,
>> +						      npo->copy_gref,
>> +						      foreign_vif->domid,
>> +						      offset,
>> +						      vif->domid,
>> +						      npo->copy_off,
>> +						      bytes,
>> +						      GNTCOPY_dest_gref |
>> +						      GNTCOPY_source_gref);
> 
> Can't you lose the flags here (and in the other variants)? Since
> they are implied by the variant of the function they could just be hardcoded
> there, couldn't they?

Even with that change these are still functions with 7 or 8 parameters
with no obvious order.  That's just awful.  The open-coded struct
initialization is better.

David
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