Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v3] xen/grant-table: Avoid m2p_override duringmapping

[Zoltan Kiss]

On 20/01/14 21:22, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> Zoltan Kiss <zoltan.kiss@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > The grant mapping API does m2p_override unnecessarily: only gntdev
> > needs it,
> > for blkback and future netback patches it just cause a lock contention,
> > as
> > those pages never go to userspace. Therefore this series does the
> > following:
> > - the original functions were renamed to __gnttab_[un]map_refs, with a
> > new
> >   parameter m2p_override
> > - based on m2p_override either they follow the original behaviour, or
> > just set
> >   the private flag and call set_phys_to_machine
> > - gnttab_[un]map_refs are now a wrapper to call __gnttab_[un]map_refs
> > with
> >   m2p_override false
> > - a new function gnttab_[un]map_refs_userspace provides the old
> > behaviour
>
> You don't say anything about the 'return ret' changed to 'return 0'.
>
> Any particular reason for that?

That's the only possible return value there, so it just makes it more 
obvious. I'll add a description about that.

Zoli

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