Re: [Pv-drivers] [PATCH 04/12] VMCI: device driver implementaton.

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue Oct 30 2012 - 11:49:34 EST


On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 09:15:22PM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 07:23:47PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 06:04:15PM -0700, George Zhang wrote:
> > > +static int __init vmci_core_init(void)
> > > +{
> > > + int result;
> > > +
> > > + result = vmci_ctx_init();
> > > + if (result < VMCI_SUCCESS) {
> > > + pr_err("Failed to initialize VMCIContext (result=%d).\n",
> > > + result);
> >
> > If you are going to use pr_* functions, it's usually a good idea to
> > define pr_fmt in a consistant way so that it shows up the same across
> > all of your .c files. See other drivers for examples of how to do this
> > properly.
>
> pr_fmt() is defined in drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_common_int.h

I think that is too late in the #include file chain, shouldn't it be set
before any #include files are called?

> > > + return -EINVAL;
> > > + }
> > > +
> > > + result = vmci_datagram_init();
> > > + if (result < VMCI_SUCCESS) {
> > > + pr_err("Failed to initialize VMCIDatagram (result=%d).\n",
> > > + result);
> > > + return -EINVAL;
> > > + }
> > > +
> > > + result = vmci_event_init();
> > > + if (result < VMCI_SUCCESS) {
> > > + pr_err("Failed to initialize VMCIEvent (result=%d).\n", result);
> > > + return -EINVAL;
> > > + }
> >
> > You don't free and unwind things properly if things go wrong here, why
> > not?
>
> We do, the above calls do not need to be cleaned up.

Ah, that's helpful :)

> > > + return 0;
> > > +}
> > > +
> > > +static void __exit vmci_core_exit(void)
> > > +{
> > > + vmci_event_exit();
> > > +}
> > > +
> > > +static int __init vmci_drv_init(void)
> > > +{
> > > + int error;
> > > +
> > > + error = vmci_core_init();
> > > + if (error)
> > > + return error;
> > > +
> > > + if (!vmci_disable_guest) {
> > > + error = vmci_guest_init();
> > > + if (error) {
> > > + pr_warn("Failed to initialize guest personality (err=%d).\n",
> > > + error);
> > > + } else {
> > > + vmci_guest_personality_initialized = true;
> > > + pr_info("Guest personality initialized and is %s\n",
> > > + vmci_guest_code_active() ?
> > > + "active" : "inactive");
> > > + }
> > > + }
> > > +
> > > + if (!vmci_disable_host) {
> > > + error = vmci_host_init();
> > > + if (error) {
> > > + pr_warn("Unable to initialize host personality (err=%d).\n",
> > > + error);
> > > + } else {
> > > + vmci_host_personality_initialized = true;
> > > + pr_info("Initialized host personality\n");
> > > + }
> > > + }
> > > +
> > > + if (!vmci_guest_personality_initialized &&
> > > + !vmci_host_personality_initialized) {
> > > + vmci_core_exit();
> > > + return -ENODEV;
> > > + }
> > > +
> > > + pr_debug("Module is initialized\n");
> >
> > Really? You need this message still?
>
> These are debug messages so do not show up in logs by default.

I know, but even if you do enable debugging, are such things really
needed? They look like left-over tracing function calls to me.

thanks,

greg k-h
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