[PATCH v4 08/11] Input: hyperv-keyboard: Use VMBUS_RING_SIZE() for ringbuffer sizes

Dmitry Torokhov dmitry.torokhov at gmail.com
Wed Sep 16 00:05:11 EDT 2020


On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 11:48:14AM +0800, Boqun Feng wrote:
> For a Hyper-V vmbus, the size of the ringbuffer has two requirements:
> 
> 1)	it has to take one PAGE_SIZE for the header
> 
> 2)	it has to be PAGE_SIZE aligned so that double-mapping can work
> 
> VMBUS_RING_SIZE() could calculate a correct ringbuffer size which
> fulfills both requirements, therefore use it to make sure vmbus work
> when PAGE_SIZE != HV_HYP_PAGE_SIZE (4K).
> 
> Note that since the argument for VMBUS_RING_SIZE() is the size of
> payload (data part), so it will be minus 4k (the size of header when
> PAGE_SIZE = 4k) than the original value to keep the ringbuffer total
> size unchanged when PAGE_SIZE = 4k.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng at gmail.com>
> Cc: Michael Kelley <mikelley at microsoft.com>
> Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov at gmail.com>

Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov at gmail.com>

Please feel free to merge through whatever tree the rest of the patches
will go.

Thanks.

-- 
Dmitry



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