Re: [PATCH 4/4] vdpa: Add documentation for vdpa_alloc_device() macro

From: Jason Wang
Date: Thu Jul 15 2021 - 04:11:07 EST



在 2021/7/15 下午4:00, Xie Yongji 写道:
The return value of vdpa_alloc_device() macro is not very
clear, so that most of callers did the wrong check. Let's
add some comments to better document it.

Signed-off-by: Xie Yongji <xieyongji@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>


Acked-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>


---
include/linux/vdpa.h | 11 +++++++++++
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/vdpa.h b/include/linux/vdpa.h
index 3357ac98878d..8cfe49d201dd 100644
--- a/include/linux/vdpa.h
+++ b/include/linux/vdpa.h
@@ -277,6 +277,17 @@ struct vdpa_device *__vdpa_alloc_device(struct device *parent,
const struct vdpa_config_ops *config,
size_t size, const char *name);
+/**
+ * vdpa_alloc_device - allocate and initilaize a vDPA device
+ *
+ * @dev_struct: the type of the parent structure
+ * @member: the name of struct vdpa_device within the @dev_struct
+ * @parent: the parent device
+ * @config: the bus operations that is supported by this device
+ * @name: name of the vdpa device
+ *
+ * Return allocated data structure or ERR_PTR upon error
+ */
#define vdpa_alloc_device(dev_struct, member, parent, config, name) \
container_of(__vdpa_alloc_device( \
parent, config, \