Re: [RFC PATCH v1 34/57] sata_sil24: Remove PAGE_SIZE compile-time constant assumption

[Niklas Cassel <cassel@kernel.org>]

On Thu, Oct 17, 2024 at 01:42:22PM +0100, Ryan Roberts wrote:
> On 17/10/2024 10:09, Niklas Cassel wrote:

(snip)

> > As you might know, there is an effort to annotate all flexible array
> > members with their run-time size information, see commit:
> > dd06e72e68bc ("Compiler Attributes: Add __counted_by macro")
> 
> I'm vaguely aware of it. But as I understand it, __counted_by() nominates
> another member in the struct which keeps the count? In this case, there is no
> such member, it's size is implicit based on the value of PAGE_SIZE. So I'm not
> sure if it's practical to use it here?

Neither am I :)

Perhaps some of the flexible array member experts like
Kees Cook or Gustavo A. R. Silva could help us out here.

Would it make sense to add another struct member and simply initialize
it to PAGE_SIZE, in order to be able to use the __counted_by macro?


> 
> > 
> > I haven't looked at the DEFINE_GLOBAL_PAGE_SIZE_VAR_CONST macro, but since
> 
> DEFINE_GLOBAL_PAGE_SIZE_VAR_CONST(), when doing a boot-time page size build,
> defers the initialization of the global variable to kernel init time, when
> PAGE_SIZE is known. Because SIL24_MAX_SGE is defined in terms of PAGE_SIZE, this
> deferral is required.
> 
> > sge[] now becomes a flexible array member, I think it would be nice if it
> > would be possible to somehow use the __counted_by macro.
> >