From 69c13c58bd10f036d6e697e664948952e61acfb1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stefano Garzarella Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2021 17:34:40 +0100 Subject: vringh: explain more about cleaning riov and wiov riov and wiov can be reused with subsequent calls of vringh_getdesc_*(). Let's add a paragraph in the documentation of these functions to better explain when riov and wiov need to be cleaned up. Acked-by: Jason Wang Signed-off-by: Stefano Garzarella Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210315163450.254396-5-sgarzare@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin --- drivers/vhost/vringh.c | 15 ++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'drivers/vhost/vringh.c') diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vringh.c b/drivers/vhost/vringh.c index bee63d68201a..2a88e087afd8 100644 --- a/drivers/vhost/vringh.c +++ b/drivers/vhost/vringh.c @@ -662,7 +662,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(vringh_init_user); * *head will be vrh->vring.num. You may be able to ignore an invalid * descriptor, but there's not much you can do with an invalid ring. * - * Note that you may need to clean up riov and wiov, even on error! + * Note that you can reuse riov and wiov with subsequent calls. Content is + * overwritten and memory reallocated if more space is needed. + * When you don't have to use riov and wiov anymore, you should clean up them + * calling vringh_iov_cleanup() to release the memory, even on error! */ int vringh_getdesc_user(struct vringh *vrh, struct vringh_iov *riov, @@ -932,7 +935,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(vringh_init_kern); * *head will be vrh->vring.num. You may be able to ignore an invalid * descriptor, but there's not much you can do with an invalid ring. * - * Note that you may need to clean up riov and wiov, even on error! + * Note that you can reuse riov and wiov with subsequent calls. Content is + * overwritten and memory reallocated if more space is needed. + * When you don't have to use riov and wiov anymore, you should clean up them + * calling vringh_kiov_cleanup() to release the memory, even on error! */ int vringh_getdesc_kern(struct vringh *vrh, struct vringh_kiov *riov, @@ -1292,7 +1298,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(vringh_set_iotlb); * *head will be vrh->vring.num. You may be able to ignore an invalid * descriptor, but there's not much you can do with an invalid ring. * - * Note that you may need to clean up riov and wiov, even on error! + * Note that you can reuse riov and wiov with subsequent calls. Content is + * overwritten and memory reallocated if more space is needed. + * When you don't have to use riov and wiov anymore, you should clean up them + * calling vringh_kiov_cleanup() to release the memory, even on error! */ int vringh_getdesc_iotlb(struct vringh *vrh, struct vringh_kiov *riov, -- cgit v1.2.3