Re: [PATCH v6 5/6] pmem: refactor pmem_clear_poison()

[Jane Chu]

On 3/22/2022 1:53 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> -static void hwpoison_clear(struct pmem_device *pmem,
>> -		phys_addr_t phys, unsigned int len)
>> +static phys_addr_t to_phys(struct pmem_device *pmem, phys_addr_t offset)
>>   {
>> +	return pmem->phys_addr + offset;
>> +}
>> +
>> +static sector_t to_sect(struct pmem_device *pmem, phys_addr_t offset)
>> +{
>> +	return (offset - pmem->data_offset) / 512;
>> +}
>> +
>> +static phys_addr_t to_offset(struct pmem_device *pmem, sector_t sector)
>> +{
>> +	return sector * 512 + pmem->data_offset;
>> +}
> 
> The multiplicate / divison using 512 could use shifts using
> SECTOR_SHIFT.

Nice, will do.

> 
>> +
>> +static void clear_hwpoison(struct pmem_device *pmem, phys_addr_t offset,
>> +		unsigned int len)
> 
>> +static void clear_bb(struct pmem_device *pmem, sector_t sector, long blks)
> 
> All these functions lack a pmem_ prefix.

Did you mean all of the helpers or just "clear_hwpoison" and "clear_bb"? 
   The reason I ask is that there are existing static helpers without 
pmem_ prefix, just short function names.

> 
>> +static blk_status_t __pmem_clear_poison(struct pmem_device *pmem,
>> +		phys_addr_t offset, unsigned int len,
>> +		unsigned int *blks)
>> +{
>> +	phys_addr_t phys = to_phys(pmem, offset);
>>   	long cleared;
>> +	blk_status_t rc;
>>   
>> +	cleared = nvdimm_clear_poison(to_dev(pmem), phys, len);
>> +	*blks = cleared / 512;
>> +	rc = (cleared < len) ? BLK_STS_IOERR : BLK_STS_OK;
>> +	if (cleared <= 0 || *blks == 0)
>> +		return rc;
> 
> This look odd.  I think just returing the cleared byte value would
> make much more sense:
> 
> static long __pmem_clear_poison(struct pmem_device *pmem,
> 		phys_addr_t offset, unsigned int len)
> {
> 	long cleared = nvdimm_clear_poison(to_dev(pmem), phys, len);
> 
> 	if (cleared > 0) {
> 		clear_hwpoison(pmem, offset, cleared);
> 		arch_invalidate_pmem(pmem->virt_addr + offset, len);
> 	}
> 
> 	return cleared;
> }

Yes, this is cleaner, will do.

Thanks!
-jane