From: Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org>
To: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Ben Widawsky <ben.widawsky@intel.com>,
linux-cxl@vger.kernel.org,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux PCI <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux ACPI <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>,
Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>,
Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>,
"Kelley, Sean V" <sean.v.kelley@intel.com>,
Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>,
"Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 4/9] cxl/mem: Map memory device registers
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2020 18:23:21 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201117002321.GA1344659@bjorn-Precision-5520> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPcyv4j+zbns+WhnxWXCdoxa=QN40BFXUpmb=04q36H1sX-aBw@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 03:19:41PM -0800, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 5:12 PM Ben Widawsky <ben.widawsky@intel.com> wrote:
> > On 20-11-13 12:17:32, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > > On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 09:43:51PM -0800, Ben Widawsky wrote:
> > > > static int cxl_mem_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *id)
> > > > {
> > > > + struct cxl_mem *cxlm = ERR_PTR(-ENXIO);
> > > > struct device *dev = &pdev->dev;
> > > > - struct cxl_mem *cxlm;
> > >
> > > The order was better before ("dev", then "clxm"). Oh, I suppose this
> > > is a "reverse Christmas tree" thing.
> > >
> >
> > I don't actually care either way as long as it's consistent. I tend to do
> > reverse Christmas tree for no particular reason.
>
> Yeah, reverse Christmas tree for no particular reason.
FWIW, the usual drivers/pci style is to order the decls in the order
the variables are used in the code. But this isn't drivers/pci, so
it's up to you. I only noticed because changing the order made the
diff bigger than it needed to be.
> > > I think this would be easier to read if cxl_mem_create() returned NULL
> > > on failure (it prints error messages and we throw away
> > > -ENXIO/-ENOMEM distinction here anyway) so you could do:
> > >
> > > struct cxl_mem *cxlm = NULL;
> > >
> > > for (...) {
> > > if (...) {
> > > cxlm = cxl_mem_create(pdev, reg_lo, reg_hi);
> > > break;
> > > }
> > > }
> > >
> > > if (!cxlm)
> > > return -ENXIO; /* -ENODEV might be more natural? */
> > >
> >
> > I agree on both counts. Both of these came from Dan, so I will let him explain.
>
> I'm not attached to differentiating -ENOMEM from -ENXIO and am ok to
> drop the ERR_PTR() return. I do tend to use -ENXIO for failure to
> perform an initialization action vs failure to even find the device,
> but if -ENODEV seems more idiomatic to Bjorn, I won't argue.
-ENXIO is fine with me. I just don't see it as often so I don't
really know what it is.
Bjorn
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-17 0:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 67+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-11 5:43 [RFC PATCH 0/9] CXL 2.0 Support Ben Widawsky
2020-11-11 5:43 ` [RFC PATCH 1/9] cxl/acpi: Add an acpi_cxl module for the CXL interconnect Ben Widawsky
2020-11-11 6:17 ` Randy Dunlap
2020-11-11 7:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-11-11 7:30 ` Verma, Vishal L
2020-11-11 7:34 ` hch
2020-11-11 7:36 ` Verma, Vishal L
2020-11-11 23:03 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2020-11-16 17:59 ` Jonathan Cameron
2020-11-16 18:23 ` Verma, Vishal L
2020-11-17 14:32 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-11-17 21:45 ` Dan Williams
2020-11-18 11:14 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-11-11 5:43 ` [RFC PATCH 2/9] cxl/acpi: add OSC support Ben Widawsky
2020-11-16 17:59 ` Jonathan Cameron
2020-11-16 23:25 ` Dan Williams
2020-11-18 12:25 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-11-18 17:58 ` Dan Williams
2020-11-11 5:43 ` [RFC PATCH 3/9] cxl/mem: Add a driver for the type-3 mailbox Ben Widawsky
2020-11-11 6:17 ` Randy Dunlap
2020-11-11 7:12 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-11-11 17:17 ` Dan Williams
2020-11-11 18:27 ` Dan Williams
2020-11-11 21:41 ` Randy Dunlap
2020-11-11 22:40 ` Dan Williams
2020-11-16 16:56 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-11-13 18:17 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2020-11-14 1:08 ` Ben Widawsky
2020-11-15 0:23 ` Dan Williams
2020-11-17 14:49 ` Jonathan Cameron
2020-12-04 7:22 ` Dan Williams
2020-12-04 7:27 ` Dan Williams
2020-12-04 17:39 ` Jonathan Cameron
2020-11-11 5:43 ` [RFC PATCH 4/9] cxl/mem: Map memory device registers Ben Widawsky
2020-11-13 18:17 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2020-11-14 1:12 ` Ben Widawsky
2020-11-16 23:19 ` Dan Williams
2020-11-17 0:23 ` Bjorn Helgaas [this message]
2020-11-23 19:20 ` Ben Widawsky
2020-11-23 19:32 ` Dan Williams
2020-11-23 19:58 ` Ben Widawsky
2020-11-17 15:00 ` Jonathan Cameron
2020-11-11 5:43 ` [RFC PATCH 5/9] cxl/mem: Find device capabilities Ben Widawsky
2020-11-13 18:26 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2020-11-14 1:36 ` Ben Widawsky
2020-11-17 15:15 ` Jonathan Cameron
2020-11-24 0:17 ` Ben Widawsky
2020-11-26 6:05 ` Jon Masters
2020-11-26 18:18 ` Ben Widawsky
2020-12-04 7:35 ` Dan Williams
2020-12-04 7:41 ` Dan Williams
2020-12-07 6:12 ` Ben Widawsky
2020-11-11 5:43 ` [RFC PATCH 6/9] cxl/mem: Initialize the mailbox interface Ben Widawsky
2020-11-17 15:22 ` Jonathan Cameron
2020-11-11 5:43 ` [RFC PATCH 7/9] cxl/mem: Implement polled mode mailbox Ben Widawsky
2020-11-13 23:14 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2020-11-17 15:31 ` Jonathan Cameron
2020-11-17 16:34 ` Ben Widawsky
2020-11-17 18:06 ` Jonathan Cameron
2020-11-17 18:38 ` Dan Williams
2020-11-11 5:43 ` [RFC PATCH 8/9] cxl/mem: Register CXL memX devices Ben Widawsky
2020-11-17 15:56 ` Jonathan Cameron
2020-11-20 2:16 ` Dan Williams
2020-11-20 15:20 ` Jonathan Cameron
2020-11-11 5:43 ` [RFC PATCH 9/9] MAINTAINERS: Add maintainers of the CXL driver Ben Widawsky
2020-11-11 22:06 ` [RFC PATCH 0/9] CXL 2.0 Support Ben Widawsky
2020-11-11 22:43 ` Bjorn Helgaas
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