On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 01:22:31PM +0530, Pankaj Gupta wrote: > + /* The request submission function */ > +static int virtio_pmem_flush(struct device *dev) > +{ > + int err; > + unsigned long flags; > + struct scatterlist *sgs[2], sg, ret; > + struct virtio_device *vdev = dev_to_virtio(dev->parent->parent); > + struct virtio_pmem *vpmem = vdev->priv; > + struct virtio_pmem_request *req = kmalloc(sizeof(*req), GFP_KERNEL); > + > + req->done = false; > + init_waitqueue_head(&req->acked); > + spin_lock_irqsave(&vpmem->pmem_lock, flags); > + > + sg_init_one(&sg, req, sizeof(req)); What are you trying to do here? sizeof(req) == sizeof(struct virtio_pmem_request *) == sizeof(void *) Did you mean sizeof(*req)? But why map struct virtio_pmem_request to the device? struct virtio_pmem_request is the driver-internal request state and is not part of the hardware interface. > + sgs[0] = &sg; > + sg_init_one(&ret, &req->ret, sizeof(req->ret)); > + sgs[1] = &ret; > + err = virtqueue_add_sgs(vpmem->req_vq, sgs, 1, 1, req, GFP_ATOMIC); > + if (err) { > + dev_err(&vdev->dev, "failed to send command to virtio pmem device\n"); This can happen if the virtqueue is full. Printing a message and failing the flush isn't appropriate. This thread needs to wait until virtqueue space becomes available. > + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&vpmem->pmem_lock, flags); > + return -ENOSPC; req is leaked. > + virtio_device_ready(vdev); This call isn't needed. Driver use it when they wish to submit buffers on virtqueues before ->probe() returns. > diff --git a/include/linux/virtio_pmem.h b/include/linux/virtio_pmem.h > new file mode 100644 > index 0000000..0f83d9c > --- /dev/null > +++ b/include/linux/virtio_pmem.h include/ is for declarations (e.g. kernel APIs) needed by other compilation units. The contents of this header are internal to the virtio_pmem driver implementation and can therefore be in virtio_pmem.c. include/linux/virtio_pmem.h isn't necessary since nothing besides virtio_pmem.c will need to include it.