Re: [PATCH V6 8/8] virtio: Intel IFC VF driver for VDPA

[Jason Wang]

On 2020/3/18 äå8:22, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 04:03:27PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> > From: Zhu Lingshan <lingshan.zhu@xxxxxxxxx>
> > +
> > +static int ifcvf_vdpa_attach(struct ifcvf_adapter *adapter)
> > +{
> > +	int ret;
> > +
> > +	adapter->vdpa_dev  = vdpa_alloc_device(adapter->dev, adapter->dev,
> > +					       &ifc_vdpa_ops);
> > +	if (IS_ERR(adapter->vdpa_dev)) {
> > +		IFCVF_ERR(adapter->dev, "Failed to init ifcvf on vdpa bus");
> > +		put_device(&adapter->vdpa_dev->dev);
> > +		return -ENODEV;
> > +	}
> The point of having an alloc call is so that the drivers
> ifcvf_adaptor memory could be placed in the same struct - eg use
> container_of to flip between them, and have a kref for both memories.
>
> It seem really weird to have an alloc followed immediately by
> register.


I admit the ifcvf_adapter is not correctly ref-counted. What you suggest 
should work. But it looks to me the following is more cleaner since the 
members of ifcvf_adapter are all related to PCI device not vDPA itself.

- keep the current layout of ifcvf_adapter
- merge vdpa_alloc_device() and vdpa_register_device()
- use devres to bind ifcvf_adapter refcnt/lifcycle to the under PCI device

If we go for the container_of method, we probably need

- accept a size of parent parent structure in vdpa_alloc_device() and 
mandate vdpa_device to be the first member of ifcvf_adapter
- we need provide a way to free resources of parent structure when we 
destroy vDPA device

What's your thought?


> > diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_vdpa.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_vdpa.c
> > index c30eb55030be..de64b88ee7e4 100644
> > +++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_vdpa.c
> > @@ -362,6 +362,7 @@ static int virtio_vdpa_probe(struct vdpa_device *vdpa)
> >   		goto err;
> >   
> >   	vdpa_set_drvdata(vdpa, vd_dev);
> > +	dev_info(vd_dev->vdev.dev.parent, "device attached to VDPA bus\n");
> >   
> >   	return 0;
> This hunk seems out of place
>
> Jason


Right, will fix.

Thanks