Re: [PATCH v6 02/46] virtio: use u32, not bitmap for features

From: Michael S. Tsirkin
Date: Sat Nov 29 2014 - 12:35:02 EST


On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 01:44:57PM +0100, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Nov 2014 22:07:41 +0200
> "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > It seemed like a good idea to use bitmap for features
> > in struct virtio_device, but it's actually a pain,
> > and seems to become even more painful when we get more
> > than 32 feature bits. Just change it to a u32 for now.
> >
> > Based on patch by Rusty.
> >
> > Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand <dahi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> > diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_pci.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_pci.c
> > index d34ebfa..ab95a4c 100644
> > --- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_pci.c
> > +++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_pci.c
> > @@ -120,8 +120,7 @@ static void vp_finalize_features(struct virtio_device *vdev)
> > vring_transport_features(vdev);
> >
> > /* We only support 32 feature bits. */
>
> I think you can kill this comment...

Why? It's still true for virtio pci at this point, that's why we
just do iowrite32 here.

> > - BUILD_BUG_ON(ARRAY_SIZE(vdev->features) != 1);
> > - iowrite32(vdev->features[0], vp_dev->ioaddr+VIRTIO_PCI_GUEST_FEATURES);
> > + iowrite32(vdev->features, vp_dev->ioaddr+VIRTIO_PCI_GUEST_FEATURES);
>
> ...and add blanks around '+', as you're touching this line anyway.
>
> > }
> >
> > /* virtio config->get() implementation */
>
> Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@xxxxxxxxxx>
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