Re: [PATCH next] xen: pcifront: Process failure for pcifront_(re)scan_root()

From: Chen Gang
Date: Tue Oct 14 2014 - 20:20:25 EST



At least for me, what you said sound OK.

Thanks.


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Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>On Mon, Oct 06, 2014 at 11:04:45AM +0800, Chen Gang wrote:
>> When pcifront_rescan_root() or pcifront_scan_root() fails, need return
>> error code, neither set XenbusStateConnected state, just like the other
>> areas have done.
>>
>> For pcifront_rescan_root(), it will return error code ("num_roots = 0;",
>> skip xenbus_switch_state return value).
>>
>> For pcifront_scan_root(), it will return 0 ("num_roots = 0;", set 0 by
>> the return value of xenbus_switch_state, which always return 0, at
>> present).
>
>The changelog is somewhat confusing because it talks about the patch hunks
>in reverse order (the pcifront_scan_root() change is first in the patch,
>but the changelog mentions pcifront_rescan_root() first). I *think* this
>means:
>
> When pcifront_try_connect() finds no PCI roots, it falls back to calling
> pcifront_scan_root() for 0000:00. If that fails, it used to switch to
> XenbusStateConnected and return success (because xenbus_switch_state()
> currently always succeeds).
>
> If pcifront_scan_root() fails, leave the XenbusState unchanged and
> return an error code.
>
> Similarly, pcifront_attach_devices() falls back to calling
> pcifront_rescan_root() for 0000:00. If that fails, it used to
> switch to XenbusStateConnected and return an error code.
>
> If pcifront_rescan_root() fails, leave the XenbusState unchanged and
> return the error code.
>
>The "num_roots" part doesn't seem relevant to me.
>
>> Signed-off-by: Chen Gang <gang.chen.5i5j@xxxxxxxxx>
>
>Konrad, if you want to take this, feel free. Otherwise, if you ack it and
>you think my changelog understanding makes sense, I can pick it up.
>
>It does seem odd that pcifront_attach_devices() ignores the
>xenbus_switch_state() return value while pcifront_try_connect() does not.
>But many other callers also ignore the return value, so maybe that's OK.
>
>Bjorn
>
>> ---
>> drivers/pci/xen-pcifront.c | 10 ++++++++++
>> 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/pci/xen-pcifront.c b/drivers/pci/xen-pcifront.c
>> index 53df39a..d78d884 100644
>> --- a/drivers/pci/xen-pcifront.c
>> +++ b/drivers/pci/xen-pcifront.c
>> @@ -866,6 +866,11 @@ static int pcifront_try_connect(struct pcifront_device *pdev)
>> xenbus_dev_error(pdev->xdev, err,
>> "No PCI Roots found, trying 0000:00");
>> err = pcifront_scan_root(pdev, 0, 0);
>> + if (err) {
>> + xenbus_dev_fatal(pdev->xdev, err,
>> + "Error scanning PCI root 0000:00");
>> + goto out;
>> + }
>> num_roots = 0;
>> } else if (err != 1) {
>> if (err == 0)
>> @@ -947,6 +952,11 @@ static int pcifront_attach_devices(struct pcifront_device *pdev)
>> xenbus_dev_error(pdev->xdev, err,
>> "No PCI Roots found, trying 0000:00");
>> err = pcifront_rescan_root(pdev, 0, 0);
>> + if (err) {
>> + xenbus_dev_fatal(pdev->xdev, err,
>> + "Error scanning PCI root 0000:00");
>> + goto out;
>> + }
>> num_roots = 0;
>> } else if (err != 1) {
>> if (err == 0)
>> --
>> 1.9.3