Re: [PATCH 2/5] mm/hmm: Clean up some coding style and comments

[Ralph Campbell]

On 6/6/19 8:57 AM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Mon, May 06, 2019 at 04:29:39PM -0700, rcampbell@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > @@ -924,6 +922,7 @@ int hmm_range_register(struct hmm_range *range,
> >   		       unsigned page_shift)
> >   {
> >   	unsigned long mask = ((1UL << page_shift) - 1UL);
> > +	struct hmm *hmm;
> >   
> >   	range->valid = false;
> >   	range->hmm = NULL;
>
> I was finishing these patches off and noticed that 'hmm' above is
> never initialized.
>
> I added the below to this patch:
>
> diff --git a/mm/hmm.c b/mm/hmm.c
> index 678873eb21930a..8e7403f081f44a 100644
> --- a/mm/hmm.c
> +++ b/mm/hmm.c
> @@ -932,19 +932,20 @@ int hmm_range_register(struct hmm_range *range,
>   	range->start = start;
>   	range->end = end;
>   
> -	range->hmm = hmm_get_or_create(mm);
> -	if (!range->hmm)
> +	hmm = hmm_get_or_create(mm);
> +	if (!hmm)
>   		return -EFAULT;
>   
>   	/* Check if hmm_mm_destroy() was call. */
> -	if (range->hmm->mm == NULL || range->hmm->dead) {
> -		hmm_put(range->hmm);
> +	if (hmm->mm == NULL || hmm->dead) {
> +		hmm_put(hmm);
>   		return -EFAULT;
>   	}
>   
>   	/* Initialize range to track CPU page table updates. */
> -	mutex_lock(&range->hmm->lock);
> +	mutex_lock(&hmm->lock);
>   
> +	range->hmm = hmm;
>   	list_add_rcu(&range->list, &hmm->ranges);
>   
>   	/*
>
> Which I think was the intent of adding the 'struct hmm *'. I prefer
> this arrangement as it does not set an leave an invalid hmm pointer in
> the range if there is a failure..
>
> Most probably the later patches fixed this up?
>
> Please confirm, thanks
>
> Regards,
> Jason

Yes, you understand correctly. That was the intended clean up.
I must have split my original patch set incorrectly.