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authorXie Yongji <xieyongji@bytedance.com>2021-07-15 10:00:26 +0200
committerMichael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>2021-08-11 12:44:23 +0200
commitc8d182bd387a09a8b95303c8086238e8bf61fcfc (patch)
tree72d7850c0a57529db989fd03a98b1fb108c64c83 /include
parentvDPA/ifcvf: Fix return value check for vdpa_alloc_device() (diff)
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vdpa: Add documentation for vdpa_alloc_device() macro
The return value of vdpa_alloc_device() macro is not very clear, so that most of callers did the wrong check. Let's add some comments to better document it. Signed-off-by: Xie Yongji <xieyongji@bytedance.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210715080026.242-4-xieyongji@bytedance.com Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Acked-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>
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-rw-r--r--include/linux/vdpa.h11
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/vdpa.h b/include/linux/vdpa.h
index 3357ac98878d..8cfe49d201dd 100644
--- a/include/linux/vdpa.h
+++ b/include/linux/vdpa.h
@@ -277,6 +277,17 @@ struct vdpa_device *__vdpa_alloc_device(struct device *parent,
const struct vdpa_config_ops *config,
size_t size, const char *name);
+/**
+ * vdpa_alloc_device - allocate and initilaize a vDPA device
+ *
+ * @dev_struct: the type of the parent structure
+ * @member: the name of struct vdpa_device within the @dev_struct
+ * @parent: the parent device
+ * @config: the bus operations that is supported by this device
+ * @name: name of the vdpa device
+ *
+ * Return allocated data structure or ERR_PTR upon error
+ */
#define vdpa_alloc_device(dev_struct, member, parent, config, name) \
container_of(__vdpa_alloc_device( \
parent, config, \