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From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
To: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,  kvmarm@lists.linux.dev,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,  Michal Luczaj <mhal@rbox.co>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] KVM: selftests: Add helper macros for ioctl()s that return file descriptors
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2023 10:27:07 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZM006zd4bpsGBtWF@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZM0rXgKvb912k5BE@linux.dev>

On Fri, Aug 04, 2023, Oliver Upton wrote:
> Hi Sean,
> 
> On Thu, Aug 03, 2023 at 05:42:24PM -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > Add KVM, VM, and vCPU scoped helpers for ioctl()s that return file
> > descriptors, i.e. deduplicate code for asserting success on ioctls() for
> > which a positive return value, not just zero, is considered success.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
> 
> I appreciate the desire to eliminate duplicate code, but I think the
> naming just muddies the waters. TBH, when I first read the diff w/o the
> changelog, I thought you were describing the input fd (i.e. 'kvm_fd',
> 'vm_fd', 'vcpu_fd'). I don't think explicitly spelling out the condition
> each time (i.e. ret >= 0) is all that difficult.

Yeah, but it's not just a desire to dedup code, I also am trying to funnel as
many "ioctl() succeeded" asserts as possible into common code so that they naturally
benefit from things like patch 4 (detecting dead/bugged VMs).

I agree the naming sucks.

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  reply	other threads:[~2023-08-04 17:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-08-04  0:42 [PATCH 0/4] KVM: selftests: ioctl() macro cleanups Sean Christopherson
2023-08-04  0:42 ` [PATCH 1/4] KVM: selftests: Drop the single-underscore ioctl() helpers Sean Christopherson
2023-08-04  0:42 ` [PATCH 2/4] KVM: selftests: Add helper macros for ioctl()s that return file descriptors Sean Christopherson
2023-08-04 16:46   ` Oliver Upton
2023-08-04 17:27     ` Sean Christopherson [this message]
2023-08-14 18:11       ` Sean Christopherson
2023-08-04 17:57     ` Colton Lewis
2023-08-04 18:33       ` Sean Christopherson
2023-08-04  0:42 ` [PATCH 3/4] KVM: selftests: Use asserting kvm_ioctl() macros when getting ARM page sizes Sean Christopherson
2023-08-04 14:58   ` Michal Luczaj
2023-08-04 15:23     ` Sean Christopherson
2023-08-04  0:42 ` [PATCH 4/4] KVM: selftests: Add logic to detect if ioctl() failed because VM was killed Sean Christopherson
2023-08-04 15:24 ` [PATCH 0/4] KVM: selftests: ioctl() macro cleanups Sean Christopherson

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