Re: [PATCH 2/4] vfio: ccw: refactor and improve pfn_array_alloc_pin()

Cornelia Huck
2018-03-26T13:28:46Z

On Wed, 21 Mar 2018 03:08:20 +0100
Dong Jia Shi <bjsdjshi@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> This refactors pfn_array_alloc_pin() and also improves it by adding
> defensive code in error handling so that calling pfn_array_unpin_free()
> after error return won't lead to problem. This mains does:
> 1. Merge pfn_array_pin() into pfn_array_alloc_pin(), since there is no
> other user of pfn_array_pin(). As a result, also remove kernel-doc
> for pfn_array_pin() and add kernel-doc for pfn_array_alloc_pin().
> 2. For a vfio_pin_pages() failure, set pa->pa_nr to zero to indicate
> zero pages were pinned.
> 3. Set pa->pa_iova_pfn to NULL right after it was freed.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dong Jia Shi <bjsdjshi@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
> drivers/s390/cio/vfio_ccw_cp.c | 84 ++++++++++++++++++------------------------
> 1 file changed, 36 insertions(+), 48 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/s390/cio/vfio_ccw_cp.c b/drivers/s390/cio/vfio_ccw_cp.c
> index 2be114db02f9..3abc9770910a 100644
> --- a/drivers/s390/cio/vfio_ccw_cp.c
> +++ b/drivers/s390/cio/vfio_ccw_cp.c
> @@ -46,65 +46,32 @@ struct ccwchain {
> };
>
> /*
> - * pfn_array_pin() - pin user pages in memory
> + * pfn_array_alloc_pin() - alloc memory for PFNs, then pin user pages in memory
> * @pa: pfn_array on which to perform the operation
> * @mdev: the mediated device to perform pin/unpin operations
> + * @iova: target guest physical address
> + * @len: number of bytes that should be pinned from @iova
> *
> - * Attempt to pin user pages in memory.
> + * Attempt to allocate memory for PFNs, and pin user pages in memory.
> *
> * Usage of pfn_array:
> - * @pa->pa_iova starting guest physical I/O address. Assigned by caller.
> + * @pa->pa_iova starting guest physical I/O address. Assigned by callee.
> * @pa->pa_iova_pfn array that stores PFNs of the pages need to pin. Allocated
> - * by caller.
> + * by callee.
> * @pa->pa_pfn array that receives PFNs of the pages pinned. Allocated by
> - * caller.
> - * @pa->pa_nr number of pages from @pa->pa_iova to pin. Assigned by
> - * caller.
> - * number of pages pinned. Assigned by callee.
> + * callee.
> + * @pa->pa_nr initiated as 0 by caller.

s/initiated/initialized/

but see below

> + * number of pages pinned from @pa->pa_iova. Assigned by callee.

So, basically everything is filled by pfn_array_alloc_pin()? Should we
expect a clean struct pfn_array handed in by the caller, then (not just
pa_nr == 0)?

Would it make sense to describe the contents of the struct pfn_array
fields at the struct's definition instead? You could then shorten the
description here to "we expect pa_nr == 0, any field in this structure
will be filled in by this function".

> *
> * Returns:
> * Number of pages pinned on success.
> - * If @pa->pa_nr is 0 or negative, returns 0.
> + * If @pa->pa_nr is not 0 initially, returns -EINVAL.
> * If no pages were pinned, returns -errno.
> */

The change itself looks good to me.