[PATCH v5 1/4] resource: Move reparent_resources() to kernel/resource.c and make it public

Baoquan He bhe at redhat.com
Tue Jun 12 09:49:23 UTC 2018


On 06/12/18 at 11:29am, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 6:28 AM, Baoquan He <bhe at redhat.com> wrote:
> > reparent_resources() is duplicated in arch/microblaze/pci/pci-common.c
> > and arch/powerpc/kernel/pci-common.c, so move it to kernel/resource.c
> > so that it's shared. Later its code also need be updated using list_head
> > to replace singly linked list.
> 
> While this is a good deduplication of the code, some requirements for
> public functions would be good to satisfy.
> 
> > +/*
> > + * Reparent resource children of pr that conflict with res
> > + * under res, and make res replace those children.
> > + */
> 
> kernel doc format, though...

Will rewrite it, thanks.

> 
> > +static int reparent_resources(struct resource *parent,
> > +                                    struct resource *res)
> 
> ...is it really public with static keyword?!
> 
> 
> 
> > +{
> 
> > +       for (pp = &parent->child; (p = *pp) != NULL; pp = &p->sibling) {
> > +               if (p->end < res->start)
> > +                       continue;
> > +               if (res->end < p->start)
> > +                       break;
> 
> > +               if (p->start < res->start || p->end > res->end)
> > +                       return -1;      /* not completely contained */
> 
> Usually we are expecting real eeror codes.
> 
> > +               if (firstpp == NULL)
> > +                       firstpp = pp;
> > +       }
> 
> > +       if (firstpp == NULL)
> > +               return -1;      /* didn't find any conflicting entries? */
> 
> Ditto.
> 
> > +}
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(reparent_resources);
> 
> -- 
> With Best Regards,
> Andy Shevchenko


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