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From: Yijing Wang <wangyijing@huawei.com>
To: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@linux.intel.com>,
	Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>,
	"Bjorn Helgaas" <bhelgaas@google.com>,
	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
	"Vinod Koul" <vinod.koul@intel.com>,
	"Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Cc: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>, Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>,
	<iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org>, <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>,
	<linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	<dmaengine@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Patch Part3 V5 1/8] iommu/vt-d: Introduce helper function dmar_walk_resources()
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 16:08:26 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5417EFFA.3090804@huawei.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5417E322.9090201@linux.intel.com>

>>>  #include "irq_remapping.h"
>>>  
>>> +typedef int (*dmar_res_handler_t)(struct acpi_dmar_header *, void *);
>>> +struct dmar_res_callback {
>>> +	dmar_res_handler_t	cb[ACPI_DMAR_TYPE_RESERVED];
>>> +	void			*arg[ACPI_DMAR_TYPE_RESERVED];
>>> +	bool			ignore_unhandled;
>>> +	bool			print_entry;
>>
>> Why do we need a switch to control print ?
> We will walk DMAR entries several times during hotplug and only
> want to print once.

Fine, thanks for your explanation.

> 
>>
>>> +};
>>> +
>>>  
>>> +static int dmar_walk_resources(struct acpi_dmar_header *start, size_t len,
>>> +			       struct dmar_res_callback *cb)
>>
>> The name dmar_walk_resources easily make people think this is related with I/O or memory resources.
>> Do you have a better idea of this ?  What about dmar_walk_remapping_entry() or dmar_walk_remapping_structure() ?
> Good suggestion, I like dmar_walk_remapping_entries().
>>
>>> +{
>>> +	int ret = 0;
>>> +	struct acpi_dmar_header *iter, *next;
>>> +	struct acpi_dmar_header *end = ((void *)start) + len;
>>> +
>>> +	for (iter = start; iter < end && ret == 0; iter = next) {
>>> +		next = (void *)iter + iter->length;
>>> +		if (iter->length == 0) {
>>> +			/* Avoid looping forever on bad ACPI tables */
>>> +			pr_debug(FW_BUG "Invalid 0-length structure\n");
>>
>> What about use pr_warn() instead of pr_debug(), pr_debug() default is off.
> It seems a common practice for BIOS engineer to mark the last entry with
> zero length. So it will be annoying if we generate this debug message
> on product kernel.

OK.

> 
>>
>>> +			break;
>>> +		} else if (next > end) {
>>> +			/* Avoid passing table end */
>>> +			pr_warn(FW_BUG "record passes table end\n");
>>> +			ret = -EINVAL;
>>> +			break;
>>> +		}
>>> +
>>> +		if (cb->print_entry)
>>> +			dmar_table_print_dmar_entry(iter);
>>> +
>>> +		if (iter->type >= ACPI_DMAR_TYPE_RESERVED) {
>>> +			/* continue for forward compatibility */
>>> +			pr_debug("Unknown DMAR structure type %d\n",
>>> +				 iter->type);
>>
>> Same as above.
> This is typically caused by new DMAR specification. It will also be
> annoying too if  we also generate this debug message on an newer
> hardware platform with older linux kernel.

OK.

> 
>>
>>> +		} else if (cb->cb[iter->type]) {
>>> +			ret = cb->cb[iter->type](iter, cb->arg[iter->type]);
>>> +		} else if (!cb->ignore_unhandled) {
>>> +			pr_warn("No handler for DMAR structure type %d\n",


  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-16  8:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-12  2:10 [Patch Part3 V5 0/8] Enable support of Intel DMAR device hotplug Jiang Liu
2014-09-12  2:10 ` [Patch Part3 V5 1/8] iommu/vt-d: Introduce helper function dmar_walk_resources() Jiang Liu
2014-09-12  9:16   ` Yijing Wang
2014-09-16  7:13     ` Jiang Liu
2014-09-16  8:08       ` Yijing Wang [this message]
2014-09-12  2:10 ` [Patch Part3 V5 2/8] iommu/vt-d: Dynamically allocate and free seq_id for DMAR units Jiang Liu
2014-09-12  9:16   ` Yijing Wang
2014-09-12  2:10 ` [Patch Part3 V5 3/8] iommu/vt-d: Implement DMAR unit hotplug framework Jiang Liu
2014-09-15  1:40   ` Yijing Wang
2014-09-12  2:10 ` [Patch Part3 V5 4/8] iommu/vt-d: Search for ACPI _DSM method for DMAR hotplug Jiang Liu
2014-09-15  1:53   ` Yijing Wang
2014-09-12  2:10 ` [Patch Part3 V5 5/8] iommu/vt-d: Enhance intel_irq_remapping driver to support DMAR unit hotplug Jiang Liu
2014-09-15  2:20   ` Yijing Wang
2014-09-16  7:00     ` Jiang Liu
2014-09-16  7:53       ` Yijing Wang
2014-09-16  8:13         ` Jiang Liu
2014-09-12  2:10 ` [Patch Part3 V5 6/8] iommu/vt-d: Enhance error recovery in function intel_enable_irq_remapping() Jiang Liu
2014-09-15  2:25   ` Yijing Wang
2014-09-12  2:10 ` [Patch Part3 V5 7/8] iommu/vt-d: Enhance intel-iommu driver to support DMAR unit hotplug Jiang Liu
2014-09-15  2:53   ` Yijing Wang
2014-09-12  2:10 ` [Patch Part3 V5 8/8] pci, ACPI, iommu: Enhance pci_root to support DMAR device hotplug Jiang Liu
2014-09-15  3:28   ` Yijing Wang
2014-09-15  7:54 ` [Patch Part3 V5 0/8] Enable support of Intel " Yijing Wang
2014-09-16  7:17   ` Jiang Liu

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