Re: [PATCH-for-4.6 1/6] target: Add target_alloc_session() helper function

[Nicholas A. Bellinger]

On Tue, 2016-01-12 at 16:11 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > +struct se_session *
> > +target_alloc_session(struct se_portal_group *tpg,
> > +		     unsigned int tag_num, unsigned int tag_size,
> > +		     enum target_prot_op prot_op,
> > +		     const char *initiatorname, void *private,
> > +		     int (*callback)(struct se_portal_group *,
> > +				     struct se_session *, void *))
> > +{
> 
> I'd much rather have the fabrics drivers call transport_alloc_session_tags
> directly from the callback than growing even more arguments here.
> 

What's the point..?

Only vhost-scsi currently needs to allocate extra resources for
se_session percpu-ida tag pre-allocation.

The rest of the consumers can just use this common code.

> > +	struct se_session *sess;
> > +
> > +	if (tag_num != 0 && !tag_size) {
> > +		pr_err("target_alloc_session called with percpu-ida tag_num:"
> > +		       " %u, but zero tag_size\n", tag_num);
> > +		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
> > +	}
> > +	if (!tag_num && tag_size) {
> > +		pr_err("target_alloc_session called with percpu-ida tag_size:"
> > +		       " %u, but zero tag_num\n", tag_size);
> > +		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
> > +	}
> 
> These checks should be in transport_alloc_session_tags.
> 

Done.