[PATCH RFC 04/13] vhost: cleanup fetch_buf return code handling

From: Michael S. Tsirkin
Date: Tue Jun 02 2020 - 09:08:01 EST


Return code of fetch_buf is confusing, so callers resort to
tricks to get to sane values. Let's switch to something standard:
0 empty, >0 non-empty, <0 error.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++--------
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
index aca2a5b0d078..bd52b44b0d23 100644
--- a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
+++ b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
@@ -2146,6 +2146,8 @@ static int fetch_indirect_descs(struct vhost_virtqueue *vq,
return 0;
}

+/* This function returns a value > 0 if a descriptor was found, or 0 if none were found.
+ * A negative code is returned on error. */
static int fetch_buf(struct vhost_virtqueue *vq)
{
unsigned int i, head, found = 0;
@@ -2162,7 +2164,7 @@ static int fetch_buf(struct vhost_virtqueue *vq)
if (unlikely(vq->avail_idx == vq->last_avail_idx)) {
/* If we already have work to do, don't bother re-checking. */
if (likely(vq->ndescs))
- return vq->num;
+ return 0;

if (unlikely(vhost_get_avail_idx(vq, &avail_idx))) {
vq_err(vq, "Failed to access avail idx at %p\n",
@@ -2181,7 +2183,7 @@ static int fetch_buf(struct vhost_virtqueue *vq)
* invalid.
*/
if (vq->avail_idx == last_avail_idx)
- return vq->num;
+ return 0;

/* Only get avail ring entries after they have been
* exposed by guest.
@@ -2251,12 +2253,14 @@ static int fetch_buf(struct vhost_virtqueue *vq)
/* On success, increment avail index. */
vq->last_avail_idx++;

- return 0;
+ return 1;
}

+/* This function returns a value > 0 if a descriptor was found, or 0 if none were found.
+ * A negative code is returned on error. */
static int fetch_descs(struct vhost_virtqueue *vq)
{
- int ret = 0;
+ int ret;

if (unlikely(vq->first_desc >= vq->ndescs)) {
vq->first_desc = 0;
@@ -2266,10 +2270,14 @@ static int fetch_descs(struct vhost_virtqueue *vq)
if (vq->ndescs)
return 0;

- while (!ret && vq->ndescs <= vhost_vq_num_batch_descs(vq))
- ret = fetch_buf(vq);
+ for (ret = 1;
+ ret > 0 && vq->ndescs <= vhost_vq_num_batch_descs(vq);
+ ret = fetch_buf(vq))
+ ;

- return vq->ndescs ? 0 : ret;
+ /* On success we expect some descs */
+ BUG_ON(ret > 0 && !vq->ndescs);
+ return ret;
}

/* This looks in the virtqueue and for the first available buffer, and converts
@@ -2288,7 +2296,7 @@ int vhost_get_vq_desc(struct vhost_virtqueue *vq,
int ret = fetch_descs(vq);
int i;

- if (ret)
+ if (ret <= 0)
return ret;

/* Now convert to IOV */
--
MST