From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54394) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YsAp3-0006RH-2X for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 12 May 2015 10:06:16 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YsAeq-0004DC-Bg for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 12 May 2015 09:55:43 -0400 Received: from e06smtp12.uk.ibm.com ([195.75.94.108]:41701) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YsAep-0004D3-Tf for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 12 May 2015 09:55:40 -0400 Received: from /spool/local by e06smtp12.uk.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Tue, 12 May 2015 14:55:37 +0100 Received: from b06cxnps4075.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (d06relay12.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com [9.149.109.197]) by d06dlp02.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16C63219004D for ; Tue, 12 May 2015 14:55:16 +0100 (BST) Received: from d06av06.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (d06av06.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com [9.149.37.217]) by b06cxnps4075.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (8.14.9/8.14.9/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id t4CDtYXc66060454 for ; Tue, 12 May 2015 13:55:34 GMT Received: from d06av06.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by d06av06.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.14.4/NCO v10.0 AVout) with ESMTP id t4C8nVBO028898 for ; Tue, 12 May 2015 04:49:32 -0400 Date: Tue, 12 May 2015 15:55:29 +0200 From: Greg Kurz Message-ID: <20150512155529.7e60b47a@bahia.local> In-Reply-To: <20150512151453.42880d6c.cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> References: <20150506120729.8607.23404.stgit@bahia.huguette.org> <20150506120737.8607.30158.stgit@bahia.huguette.org> <20150512151453.42880d6c.cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 1/7] virtio: relax feature check List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Cornelia Huck Cc: Jason Wang , virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Stefan Hajnoczi , "Michael S. Tsirkin" On Tue, 12 May 2015 15:14:53 +0200 Cornelia Huck wrote: > On Wed, 06 May 2015 14:07:37 +0200 > Greg Kurz wrote: > > > Unlike with add and clear, there is no valid reason to abort when checking > > for a feature. It makes more sense to return false (i.e. the feature bit > > isn't set). This is exactly what __virtio_has_feature() does if fbit >= 32. > > > > This allows to introduce code that is aware about new 64-bit features like > > VIRTIO_F_VERSION_1, even if they are still not implemented. > > > > Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz > > --- > > include/hw/virtio/virtio.h | 1 - > > 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) > > > > diff --git a/include/hw/virtio/virtio.h b/include/hw/virtio/virtio.h > > index d95f8b6..6ef70f1 100644 > > --- a/include/hw/virtio/virtio.h > > +++ b/include/hw/virtio/virtio.h > > @@ -233,7 +233,6 @@ static inline void virtio_clear_feature(uint32_t *features, unsigned int fbit) > > > > static inline bool __virtio_has_feature(uint32_t features, unsigned int fbit) > > { > > - assert(fbit < 32); > > return !!(features & (1 << fbit)); > > } > > > > > > > > I must say I'm not very comfortable with knowingly passing out-of-rage > values to this function. > I take that as a valid reason then :) > Can we perhaps apply at least the feature-bit-size extending patches > prior to your patchset, if the remainder of the virtio-1 patchset still > takes some time? Hmm... if I remember well, it still lacks migration support. -- Greg