[PATCH V3 2/3] vhost: introduce vhost_vq_avail_empty()

From: Jason Wang
Date: Fri Feb 26 2016 - 03:43:22 EST


This patch introduces a helper which will return true if we're sure
that the available ring is empty for a specific vq. When we're not
sure, e.g vq access failure, return false instead. This could be used
for busy polling code to exit the busy loop.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
drivers/vhost/vhost.h | 1 +
2 files changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
index 90ac092..c4ff9f2 100644
--- a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
+++ b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
@@ -1633,6 +1633,20 @@ void vhost_add_used_and_signal_n(struct vhost_dev *dev,
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vhost_add_used_and_signal_n);

+/* return true if we're sure that available ring is empty */
+bool vhost_vq_avail_empty(struct vhost_dev *dev, struct vhost_virtqueue *vq)
+{
+ __virtio16 avail_idx;
+ int r;
+
+ r = __get_user(avail_idx, &vq->avail->idx);
+ if (r)
+ return false;
+
+ return vhost16_to_cpu(vq, avail_idx) == vq->avail_idx;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vhost_vq_avail_empty);
+
/* OK, now we need to know about added descriptors. */
bool vhost_enable_notify(struct vhost_dev *dev, struct vhost_virtqueue *vq)
{
diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vhost.h b/drivers/vhost/vhost.h
index 43284ad..a7a43f0 100644
--- a/drivers/vhost/vhost.h
+++ b/drivers/vhost/vhost.h
@@ -159,6 +159,7 @@ void vhost_add_used_and_signal_n(struct vhost_dev *, struct vhost_virtqueue *,
struct vring_used_elem *heads, unsigned count);
void vhost_signal(struct vhost_dev *, struct vhost_virtqueue *);
void vhost_disable_notify(struct vhost_dev *, struct vhost_virtqueue *);
+bool vhost_vq_avail_empty(struct vhost_dev *, struct vhost_virtqueue *);
bool vhost_enable_notify(struct vhost_dev *, struct vhost_virtqueue *);

int vhost_log_write(struct vhost_virtqueue *vq, struct vhost_log *log,
--
2.5.0