Re: [PATCH 1/1] device-dax: avoid an unnecessary check in alloc_dev_dax_range()

From: Dan Williams
Date: Thu Dec 17 2020 - 22:12:57 EST


On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 1:23 AM Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Swap the calling sequence of krealloc() and __request_region(), call the
> latter first. In this way, the value of dev_dax->nr_range does not need to
> be considered when __request_region() failed.

This looks ok, but I think I want to see another cleanup go in first
before this to add a helper for trimming the last range off the set of
ranges:

static void dev_dax_trim_range(struct dev_dax *dev_dax)
{
int i = dev_dax->nr_range - 1;
struct range *range = &dev_dax->ranges[i].range;
struct dax_region *dax_region = dev_dax->region;

dev_dbg(dev, "delete range[%d]: %#llx:%#llx\n", i,
(unsigned long long)range->start,
(unsigned long long)range->end);

__release_region(&dax_region->res, range->start, range_len(range));
if (--dev_dax->nr_range == 0) {
kfree(dev_dax->ranges);
dev_dax->ranges = NULL;
}
}

Care to do a lead in patch with that cleanup, then do this one?

I think that might also cleanup a memory leak report from Jane in
addition to not needing the "goto" as well.

http://lore.kernel.org/r/c8a8a260-34c6-dbfc-1f19-25c23d01cb45@xxxxxxxxxx