Re: [PATCH 03/12] util/fifo8: Introduce fifo8_peek_buf()

["Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>]

Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org> writes:

> To be able to poke at FIFO content without popping it,

peek/poke are different operations in my head. You peek to read stuff
and poke to change stuff, or at least thats what I did in BASIC back in
the 80s.

Either way I don't think peek and poke are synonyms.

> introduce the fifo8_peek_buf() method by factoring
> common content from fifo8_pop_buf().
>
> Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
> ---
>  include/qemu/fifo8.h | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  util/fifo8.c         | 22 ++++++++++++++++++----
>  2 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/qemu/fifo8.h b/include/qemu/fifo8.h
> index d0d02bc73d..7acf6d1347 100644
> --- a/include/qemu/fifo8.h
> +++ b/include/qemu/fifo8.h
> @@ -93,6 +93,32 @@ uint8_t fifo8_pop(Fifo8 *fifo);
>   */
>  const uint8_t *fifo8_pop_buf(Fifo8 *fifo, uint32_t max, uint32_t *numptr);
>  
> +/**
> + * fifo8_peek_buf:

fifo8_peek_buf() - read upto max bytes from the fifo


> + * @fifo: FIFO to poke from
> + * @max: maximum number of bytes to pop
> + * @numptr: pointer filled with number of bytes returned (can be NULL)
> + *
> + * Pop a number of elements from the FIFO up to a maximum of max. The buffer
> + * containing the popped data is returned. This buffer points directly into
> + * the FIFO backing store and data is invalidated once any of the fifo8_* APIs
> + * are called on the FIFO.
> + *
> + * The function may return fewer bytes than requested when the data wraps
> + * around in the ring buffer; in this case only a contiguous part of the data
> + * is returned.
> + *
> + * The number of valid bytes returned is populated in *numptr; will always
> + * return at least 1 byte. max must not be 0 or greater than the number of
> + * bytes in the FIFO.
> + *
> + * Clients are responsible for checking the availability of requested data
> + * using fifo8_num_used().
> + *
> + * Returns: A pointer to peekable data.
> + */
> +const uint8_t *fifo8_peek_buf(Fifo8 *fifo, uint32_t max, uint32_t *numptr);
> +
>  /**
>   * fifo8_reset:
>   * @fifo: FIFO to reset
> diff --git a/util/fifo8.c b/util/fifo8.c
> index 032e985440..e12477843e 100644
> --- a/util/fifo8.c
> +++ b/util/fifo8.c
> @@ -66,7 +66,8 @@ uint8_t fifo8_pop(Fifo8 *fifo)
>      return ret;
>  }
>  
> -const uint8_t *fifo8_pop_buf(Fifo8 *fifo, uint32_t max, uint32_t *numptr)
> +static const uint8_t *fifo8_peekpop_buf(Fifo8 *fifo, uint32_t max,
> +                                        uint32_t *numptr, bool do_pop)
>  {
>      uint8_t *ret;
>      uint32_t num;
> @@ -74,15 +75,28 @@ const uint8_t *fifo8_pop_buf(Fifo8 *fifo, uint32_t max, uint32_t *numptr)
>      assert(max > 0 && max <= fifo->num);
>      num = MIN(fifo->capacity - fifo->head, max);
>      ret = &fifo->data[fifo->head];
> -    fifo->head += num;
> -    fifo->head %= fifo->capacity;
> -    fifo->num -= num;
> +
> +    if (do_pop) {
> +        fifo->head += num;
> +        fifo->head %= fifo->capacity;
> +        fifo->num -= num;
> +    }
>      if (numptr) {
>          *numptr = num;
>      }
>      return ret;
>  }
>  
> +const uint8_t *fifo8_peek_buf(Fifo8 *fifo, uint32_t max, uint32_t *numptr)
> +{
> +    return fifo8_peekpop_buf(fifo, max, numptr, false);
> +}
> +
> +const uint8_t *fifo8_pop_buf(Fifo8 *fifo, uint32_t max, uint32_t *numptr)
> +{
> +    return fifo8_peekpop_buf(fifo, max, numptr, true);
> +}
> +
>  void fifo8_reset(Fifo8 *fifo)
>  {
>      fifo->num = 0;


-- 
Alex Bennée
Virtualisation Tech Lead @ Linaro