On Fri, Aug 06, 2021 at 11:05:53AM +0200, Patrick Wildt wrote:
> Am Thu, Aug 05, 2021 at 02:33:01PM +0200 schrieb Jan Klemkow:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > The following diff removes useless code from the driver.  As discussed
> > here [1] and committed there [2], the hypervisor doesn't do anything
> > with the data structures.  We even just set NULL to the pointer since
> > the initial commit of vmx(4).  So, I guess it better to remove all of
> > these.  The variables are bzero'd in vmxnet3_dma_allocmem() anyway.
> > 
> > OK?
> 
> My main concern was if the structs are getting zeroed correctly, but
> they do, so that's fine.
> 
> That said, it looks like Linux sets the pointer to ~0ULL, not 0.  Should
> we follow Linux' pattern there and do that as well?
> 

Thinking about it a little more, I think we should do that as well.  And
maybe explicitly set driver_data_len to 0 even though it's already zero.
Basically for readability.

> 
> > bye,
> > Jan
> > 
> > [1]: https://www.lkml.org/lkml/2021/1/19/1225
> > [2]: 
> > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_drv.c?id=de1da8bcf40564a2adada2d5d5426e05355f66e8
> > 
> > Index: dev/pci/if_vmx.c
> > ===================================================================
> > RCS file: /cvs/src/sys/dev/pci/if_vmx.c,v
> > retrieving revision 1.66
> > diff -u -p -r1.66 if_vmx.c
> > --- dev/pci/if_vmx.c        23 Jul 2021 00:29:14 -0000      1.66
> > +++ dev/pci/if_vmx.c        5 Aug 2021 11:12:26 -0000
> > @@ -157,7 +157,6 @@ struct vmxnet3_softc {
> >  #define WRITE_BAR1(sc, reg, val) \
> >     bus_space_write_4((sc)->sc_iot1, (sc)->sc_ioh1, reg, val)
> >  #define WRITE_CMD(sc, cmd) WRITE_BAR1(sc, VMXNET3_BAR1_CMD, cmd)
> > -#define vtophys(va) 0              /* XXX ok? */
> >  
> >  int vmxnet3_match(struct device *, void *, void *);
> >  void vmxnet3_attach(struct device *, struct device *, void *);
> > @@ -468,8 +467,6 @@ vmxnet3_dma_init(struct vmxnet3_softc *s
> >     ds->vmxnet3_revision = 1;
> >     ds->upt_version = 1;
> >     ds->upt_features = UPT1_F_CSUM | UPT1_F_VLAN;
> > -   ds->driver_data = vtophys(sc);
> > -   ds->driver_data_len = sizeof(struct vmxnet3_softc);
> >     ds->queue_shared = qs_pa;
> >     ds->queue_shared_len = qs_len;
> >     ds->mtu = VMXNET3_MAX_MTU;
> > @@ -546,8 +543,6 @@ vmxnet3_alloc_txring(struct vmxnet3_soft
> >     ts->cmd_ring_len = NTXDESC;
> >     ts->comp_ring = comp_pa;
> >     ts->comp_ring_len = NTXCOMPDESC;
> > -   ts->driver_data = vtophys(tq);
> > -   ts->driver_data_len = sizeof *tq;
> >     ts->intr_idx = intr;
> >     ts->stopped = 1;
> >     ts->error = 0;
> > @@ -598,8 +593,6 @@ vmxnet3_alloc_rxring(struct vmxnet3_soft
> >     rs->cmd_ring_len[1] = NRXDESC;
> >     rs->comp_ring = comp_pa;
> >     rs->comp_ring_len = NRXCOMPDESC;
> > -   rs->driver_data = vtophys(rq);
> > -   rs->driver_data_len = sizeof *rq;
> >     rs->intr_idx = intr;
> >     rs->stopped = 1;
> >     rs->error = 0;
> > 
> 

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