Re: [PATCH v3 0/4] Introduce pcim_alloc_irq_vectors()

Robert Richter
2021-02-19T11:21:46Z

On 18.02.21 16:01:56, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> The problem this series solves is an imbalanced API.

This (added) API is bloated and incomplete. It adds functions without
benefit, the only is to have a single pcim alloc function in addition
to the pairing of alloc/free functions. I agree, it is hard to detect
which parts are released if pcim_enable_device() is used.

Additional, you need to go through pcim_release() to add other
pcim_*() functions for everything else that is released there.
Otherwise that new API is still incomplete. But this adds another
bunch of useless functions.

> Christoph IIRC was clear that if we want to use PCI IRQ allocation API the
> caller must know what's going on. Hiding this behind the scenes is not good.
> And this series unhides that.

IMO, this is more a documentation issue. pcim_enable_device() must be
better documented and list all enable/alloc functions that are going
to be released out of the box later.

Even better, make sure everything is managed and thus all of a pci_dev
is released, no matter how it was setup (this could even already be
the case).

In addition you could implement a static code checker.

> Also, you may go and clean up all pci_free_irq_vectors() when
> pcim_enable_device() is called, but I guess you will get painful process and
> rejection in a pile of cases.

Why should something be rejected if it is not correctly freed?

Even if pci_free_irq_vectors() is called, pcim_release() will not
complain if it was already freed before. So using
pci_free_irq_vectors() is ok even in conjunction with
pcim_enable_device().

In the end, let's make sure everything is released in pci_dev if it is
managed and document this.

Thanks,

-Robert