RE: [RFCv2 07/11] remoteproc: Register virtio devices after vringallocation

[Sjur BRENDELAND]

Hi Ido,

> On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 05:06:56PM +0100, Sjur Brændeland wrote:
> > Postpone the registration of virtio devices until all
> > vritio ring resource has been allocated.
> > This fixes the following bug: The driver's start callback
> > is called before all vring notify ids are allocated and
> > max_notifyid will be increased after starting the remoteproc.
> 
> It seems that this patch wont solve this issue, since
> rproc_add_virtio_dev eventually increases max_notifyid, so the same
> problem will simply occur at a later stage.
> 
> Also, it seems that the original rproc_add_virtio_dev calls were not
> removed, so devices would be added twice.
> 
> If max_notifyid needs to be set before the first virtio device is added,
> how about counting the number of notification ids in advance before
> adding the devices, by traversing the resource list twice?

OK, I'll just simply count the number of vrings registered then.

Regards,
Sjur
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