Re: [PATCH 1/2] xen/granttable: Support sub-page grants

From: Ian Campbell
Date: Wed Dec 07 2011 - 04:56:25 EST


On Wed, 2011-12-07 at 03:36 +0000, ANNIE LI wrote:
> Thanks for your reviewing, Ian.
> >> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(gnttab_grant_foreign_access);
> >>
> >> +int gnttab_grant_foreign_access_subpage_v2(domid_t domid, unsigned long frame,
> >> + int flags, unsigned page_off,
> >> + unsigned length)
> > Please drop the v2 suffixes on the public functions.
> OK, the initial interface is without v2 suffixes. It was added in order
> to reminder user the interfaces are only available for grant table v2.
> But I am fine to remove it, and following ops fn pointers are better.
> > Any reason not to route these via the ops table for consistency with all
> > the other ops? Then your availability check becomes a test for NULL fn
> > pointer rather than a specific version.
> Ok, it is good.
> How about following implements?

Looks to be along the right lines. Thanks.

> gnttab_v1_ops = {
> ...
> .access_subpage = NULL;
> .access_ref_subpage = NULL;
> .access_trans = NULL;
> .access_ref_trans = NULL;
> }

I think you can omit these since NULL is the default but perhaps
explicitly listing them is useful in a self documenting type way.

[...]
>
> Same operations for access_ref_subpage, access_trans and access_ref_trans.
>
> bool gnttab_subpage_available()
> {
> return (gnttab_interface->access_subpage != NULL);
> }
>
> bool gnttab_subpage_available()
Typo: ..trans..
> {
> return (gnttab_interface->access_trans != NULL);
> }

Ian.

>
> Thanks
> Annie


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