various vmbus review comments
KY Srinivasan
kys at microsoft.com
Fri May 6 17:34:55 UTC 2011
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg KH [mailto:greg at kroah.com]
> Sent: Friday, May 06, 2011 11:00 AM
> To: KY Srinivasan
> Cc: gregkh at suse.de; linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org;
> devel at linuxdriverproject.org; virtualization at lists.osdl.org
> Subject: Re: various vmbus review comments
>
> On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 01:10:38PM +0000, KY Srinivasan wrote:
> > > No, I am referring to the module reference counting of the bus drivers
> > > that register with the vmbus core. You aren't doing that at all, and
> > > you probably need to make sure that this isn't needed. That is
> > > concentrating on the vmbus driver.
> >
> > I audited the block and the net drivers. As part of their exit routine,
> > they invoke vmbus_child_driver_unregister() after properly cleaning
> > up all the devices they are managing. Do you still see an issue with
> > regards to module reference counting.
>
> I will look again, the next time I review the vmbus code.
Thank you.
>
> > > > I will also address your comment on static initialization hv_driver instances
> > > > as part of other driver cleanup.
> > >
> > > No, please do this now as it will show how to properly interact with the
> > > vmbus core code in the correct manner. Hopefully that will be correct,
> > > but I have a feeling that it will show you some places in the API that
> > > need to be changed...
> >
> > As opposed to run-time initialization of fields such as probe, etc; I have
> > initialized them statically. For instance, in the blkvsc driver:
> >
> > /* The one and only one */
> > static struct storvsc_driver blkvsc_drv = {
> > .base.probe = blkvsc_probe,
> > .base.remove = blkvsc_remove,
> > .base.shutdown = blkvsc_shutdown,
> > };
> >
> > Is this what you had in mind.
>
> Close. The format is correct.
>
> But what's with that ".base." crud? That shows that something is wrong
> as no USB or PCI or any other bus driver has to mess with a ".base"
> subpointer in a driver structure.
>
> See, I told you that when you converted to use this format the problems
> would pop out at you :)
>
> Please fix that.
I will. I am incrementally cleaning up the drivers, I will cleanup the ".base"
crud as part of additional cleanup that I will do.
Regards,
K. Y
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