Re: [PATCH v3 4/5] mtrr, x86: Clean up mtrr_type_lookup()

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>]

* Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com> wrote:

> MTRRs contain fixed and variable entries.  mtrr_type_lookup()
> may repeatedly call __mtrr_type_lookup() to handle a request
> that overlaps with variable entries.  However,
> __mtrr_type_lookup() also handles the fixed entries, which
> do not have to be repeated.  Therefore, this patch creates
> separate functions, mtrr_type_lookup_fixed() and
> mtrr_type_lookup_variable(), to handle the fixed and variable
> ranges respectively.
> 
> The patch also updates the function headers to clarify the
> return values and output argument.  It updates comments to
> clarify that the repeating is necessary to handle overlaps
> with the default type, since overlaps with multiple entries
> alone can be handled without such repeating.
> 
> There is no functional change in this patch.

Nice cleanup!

I also suggest adding a small table to the comments before the 
function, that lists the fixed purpose MTRRs and their address ranges 
- to make it more obvious what the magic hexadecimal constants within 
the code are doing.

> +static u8 mtrr_type_lookup_fixed(u64 start, u64 end)
> +{
> +	int idx;
> +
> +	if (start >= 0x100000)
> +		return 0xFF;

Btw., as a separate cleanup patch, we should probably also change 
'0xFF' (which is sometimes written as 0xff) to be some sufficiently 
named constant, and explain its usage somewhere?

> +	if (!(mtrr_state.have_fixed) ||
> +	    !(mtrr_state.enabled & MTRR_STATE_MTRR_FIXED_ENABLED))

Btw., can MTRR_STATE_MTRR_FIXED_ENABLED ever be set in 
mtrr_state.enabled, without mtrr_state.have_fixed being set?

AFAICS get_mtrr_state() will only ever fill in mtrr_state with fixed 
MTRRs if mtrr_state.have_fixed != 0 - but I might be mis-reading the 
(rather convoluted) flow of code ...

Thanks,

	Ingo