Re: [PATCH rdma-next v3 2/3] lib/scatterlist: Fix wrong update of orig_nents

From: Jason Gunthorpe
Date: Fri Aug 20 2021 - 11:57:46 EST


On Fri, Aug 20, 2021 at 12:54:25PM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 12:39:12PM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
>
> > +/**
> > + * __sg_free_table - Free a previously mapped sg table
> > + * @table: The sg table header to use
> > + * @max_ents: The maximum number of entries per single scatterlist
> > + * @total_ents: The total number of entries in the table
> > + * @nents_first_chunk: Number of entries int the (preallocated) first
> > + * scatterlist chunk, 0 means no such preallocated
> > + * first chunk
> > + * @free_fn: Free function
> > + *
> > + * Description:
> > + * Free an sg table previously allocated and setup with
> > + * __sg_alloc_table(). The @max_ents value must be identical to
> > + * that previously used with __sg_alloc_table().
> > + *
> > + **/
> > +void __sg_free_table(struct sg_table *table, unsigned int max_ents,
> > + unsigned int nents_first_chunk, sg_free_fn *free_fn)
> > +{
> > + sg_free_table_entries(table, max_ents, nents_first_chunk, free_fn,
> > + table->orig_nents);
> > +}
> > EXPORT_SYMBOL(__sg_free_table);
>
> This is getting a bit indirect, there is only one caller of
> __sg_free_table() in sg_pool.c, so may as well just export
> sg_free_table_entries have have it use that directly.

And further since sg_free_table_entries() doesn't actually use table->
except for the SGL it should probably be called sg_free_table_sgl()

Jason