> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Miller [mailto:da...@davemloft.net]
> Sent: Saturday, March 8, 2014 12:07 PM
> To: KY Srinivasan
> Cc: net...@vger.kernel.org; linux-ker...@vger.kernel.org;
> de...@linuxdriverproject.org; o...@aepfle.de; a...@canonical.com;
> jasow...@redhat.com
> Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 1/6] Drivers: net: hyperv: Enable scatter gather I/O
> 
> From: KY Srinivasan <k...@microsoft.com>
> Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2014 04:12:01 +0000
> 
> >
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: David Miller [mailto:da...@davemloft.net]
> >> Sent: Saturday, March 8, 2014 3:18 AM
> >> To: KY Srinivasan
> >> Cc: net...@vger.kernel.org; linux-ker...@vger.kernel.org;
> >> de...@linuxdriverproject.org; o...@aepfle.de; a...@canonical.com;
> >> jasow...@redhat.com
> >> Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 1/6] Drivers: net: hyperv: Enable scatter
> >> gather I/O
> >>
> >> From: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <k...@microsoft.com>
> >> Date: Thu,  6 Mar 2014 21:32:36 -0800
> >>
> >> > +static u32 fill_pg_buf(struct page *page, u32 offset, u32 len,
> >> > +                        struct hv_page_buffer *pb)
> >> > +{
> >> > +        int j = 0;
> >> > +
> >> > +        /* Deal with compund pages by ignoring unused part
> >> > +         * of the page.
> >> > +         */
> >> > +        page += offset  >> PAGE_SHIFT;
> >>
> >> Please only one space between "offset" and ">>"
> >>
> >> > +        offset &= ~PAGE_MASK;
> >> > +
> >> > +        while (len > 0) {
> >> > +                unsigned long bytes;
> >> > +
> >> > +                bytes = PAGE_SIZE - offset;
> >> > +                if (bytes > len)
> >> > +                        bytes = len;
> >> > +                pb[j].pfn = page_to_pfn(page);
> >> > +                pb[j].offset = offset;
> >> > +                pb[j].len = bytes;
> >> > +
> >> > +                offset += bytes;
> >> > +                len -= bytes;
> >> > +
> >> > +                if (offset == PAGE_SIZE && len) {
> >> > +                        page++;
> >> > +                        offset = 0;
> >> > +                        j++;
> >> > +                }
> >> > +        }
> >> > +
> >> > +        return j + 1;
> >> > +}
> >>
> >> I think this function has some edge case errors.
> >>
> >> As I understand it, this function returns how many page buffer
> >> entries were filled in.
> >>
> >> But if we fill exactly the end of a page, we will report one too many
> >> in the return value.
> >
> > I may be missing something here; but in the case you are describing we
> > would return a value of one as we should. When offset + len is exactly
> > equal to the page size, we would not increment the value of j, since
> > at that point len == 0. Since the initial value of j was 0 and we return (j 
> > + 1),
> we will return 1.
> 
> That's not what happens, you execute the loop code at least once, and
> hit:
> 
> >> > +                offset += bytes;
> >> > +                len -= bytes;
> >> > +                if (offset == PAGE_SIZE && len) {
> >> > +                        page++;
> >> > +                        offset = 0;
> >> > +                        j++;
> >> > +                }

> 
> thus incrementing j before the return statement.

I don't mean to be argumentative, but I still don't see the issue here. You are 
right, I
will execute the loop code at least once, but j gets incremented only if len is 
non-zero as well as
offset being == PAGE_SIZE. "len" would have gotten decremented prior to the 
check and in the case
we are talking about, "len" would be zero and so j would not get incremented.

Regards,

K. Y

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