From: "Chentao (Boby)" <boby.chen@huawei.com>
To: "Roger Pau Monné" <roger.pau@citrix.com>, konrad.wilk@oracle.com
Cc: <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
<wu.wubin@huawei.com>, <rudy.zhangmin@huawei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xen-blkback: enlarge the array size of blkback name
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2015 12:01:27 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5514D617.6080100@huawei.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5513EC1E.5090601@citrix.com>
You are right, roger. Thanks.
domid is a u16, it will occupy 5 characters at most. So the biggest
length of blkback name is 8+5+5=18.
At this situation, define BLKBACK_NAME_LEN macro to be 20 is safe.
On 2015/3/26 19:23, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> El 13/03/15 a les 16.52, Tao Chen ha escrit:
>> The blkback name is like blkback.domid.xvd[a-z], if domid has three digits
>> (means larger than 100), then the backmost xvd wouldn't be fully shown.
>>
>> Define a BLKBACK_NAME_LEN macro which is (TASK_COMM_LEN * 2), enlarge the
>> array size of blkback name, so it will be fully shown in any case.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Tao Chen <boby.chen@huawei.com>
>> ---
>> drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c | 7 +++++--
>> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c
>> index e3afe97..0289e21 100644
>> --- a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c
>> +++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c
>> @@ -21,6 +21,9 @@
>> #include <xen/grant_table.h>
>> #include "common.h"
>>
>> +/* Enlarge the array size in order to fully show blkback name. */
>> +#define BLKBACK_NAME_LEN (TASK_COMM_LEN * 2)
>
> Any reason to use TASK_COMM_LEN instead of just coding it to 17? Or
> maybe 20 to be on the safe side?
>
> Roger.
>
> .
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-27 4:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-13 15:52 [PATCH] xen-blkback: enlarge the array size of blkback name Tao Chen
2015-03-26 11:23 ` Roger Pau Monné
2015-03-27 4:01 ` Chentao (Boby)
2015-03-27 4:01 ` Chentao (Boby) [this message]
2015-03-26 11:23 ` Roger Pau Monné
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2015-03-13 15:52 Tao Chen
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