[RFC v2 8/9] KVM: KVM-VFIO: generic KVM_DEV_VFIO_DEVICE command and IRQ forwarding control

[Christoffer Dall]

On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 11:05:49PM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-09-11 at 05:10 +0200, Christoffer Dall wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 01, 2014 at 02:52:47PM +0200, Eric Auger wrote:

[...]

> > >  
> > > +#ifdef __KVM_HAVE_ARCH_KVM_VFIO_FORWARD
> > > +int kvm_arch_set_fwd_state(struct kvm_fwd_irq *pfwd,
> > 
> > what's the 'p' in pfwd?
> 
> p is for pointer?
> 

shouldn't the type declation spell out quite clearly to me that I'm
dealing with a pointer?

[...]

> > 
> > need some spaceing here, also, I would turn this around, first check if
> > the strcmp fails, and then error out, then do you next check etc., to
> > avoid so many nested statements.
> > 
> > > +	/* is a ref to this device already owned by the KVM-VFIO device? */
> > 
> > this comment is not particularly helpful in its current form, it would
> > be helpful if you specified that we're checking whether that particular
> > device/irq combo is already registered.
> > 
> > > +	*kvm_vdev = kvm_vfio_find_device(kv, vdev);
> > > +	if (*kvm_vdev) {
> > > +		if (kvm_vfio_find_irq(*kvm_vdev, fwd_irq->index)) {
> > > +			kvm_err("%s irq %d already forwarded\n",
> > > +				__func__, *hwirq);
> 
> Why didn't we do this first?
> 
huh?

-Christoffer