[PATCH vhost v7 3/6] virtio: find_vqs: pass struct instead of multi parameters

[Eric Farman]

On Thu, 2024-03-28 at 16:03 +0800, Xuan Zhuo wrote:
> Now, we pass multi parameters to find_vqs. These parameters
> may work for transport or work for vring.
> 
> And find_vqs has multi implements in many places:
> 
>  arch/um/drivers/virtio_uml.c
>  drivers/platform/mellanox/mlxbf-tmfifo.c
>  drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_virtio.c
>  drivers/s390/virtio/virtio_ccw.c
>  drivers/virtio/virtio_mmio.c
>  drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_legacy.c
>  drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_modern.c
>  drivers/virtio/virtio_vdpa.c
> 
> Every time, we try to add a new parameter, that is difficult.
> We must change every find_vqs implement.
> 
> One the other side, if we want to pass a parameter to vring,
> we must change the call path from transport to vring.
> Too many functions need to be changed.
> 
> So it is time to refactor the find_vqs. We pass a structure
> cfg to find_vqs(), that will be passed to vring by transport.
> 
> Because the vp_modern_create_avq() use the "const char *names[]",
> and the virtio_uml.c changes the name in the subsequent commit, so
> change the "names" inside the virtio_vq_config from "const char
> *const
> *names" to "const char **names".
> 
> Signed-off-by: Xuan Zhuo <xuanzhuo at linux.alibaba.com>
> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes at sipsolutions.net>
> Reviewed-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen at linux.intel.com>
> Acked-by: Jason Wang <jasowang at redhat.com>
> ---
>  arch/um/drivers/virtio_uml.c             | 22 +++----
>  drivers/platform/mellanox/mlxbf-tmfifo.c | 13 ++--
>  drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_virtio.c   | 25 ++++----
>  drivers/s390/virtio/virtio_ccw.c         | 28 ++++-----
>  drivers/virtio/virtio_mmio.c             | 23 ++++---
>  drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_common.c       | 57 ++++++++----------
>  drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_common.h       |  9 +--
>  drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_legacy.c       | 11 ++--
>  drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_modern.c       | 32 ++++++----
>  drivers/virtio/virtio_vdpa.c             | 33 +++++-----
>  include/linux/virtio_config.h            | 76 ++++++++++++++++++----
> --
>  11 files changed, 175 insertions(+), 154 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Eric Farman <farman at linux.ibm.com> # s390