Re: [PATCH 1/4] drivers: hv: dxgkrnl: core code

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On 8/14/2020 5:55 AM, Greg KH wrote:
On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 08:38:53AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> Add support for a Hyper-V based vGPU implementation that exposes the
> DirectX API to Linux userspace.
> > Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>

Better, but what is this mess:

> +#define ISERROR(ret)					(ret < 0)

The VM bus messages return the NTSTATUS error code from the host. NTSTATUS is integer and the positive values indicate success. The success error code needs to be returned by IOCTLs to the DxCore applications. The ISERROR() macro is used in places where the NTSTATUS success code could be returned from a function. "if (ret)" cannot be used. I will add a comment to the macro in the next patch.


?

> +#define EINTERNALERROR					EINVAL
This macro will be removed in the next patch
And that?

> +
> +#define DXGKRNL_ASSERT(exp)
> +#define UNUSED(x) (void)(x)
The UNUSED macro will be removed.
The DXGKRNL_ASSERT() macro will be changed to generate a memory dump and BUG_ON when DXGDEBUG is enabled. It is used to catch internal errors in the debug code. There will be no bugcheck in the released driver.

Ick, no, please.

> +#undef pr_fmt

In a .h file?

> +#define pr_fmt(fmt)	"dxgk:err: " fmt
> +#define pr_fmt1(fmt)	"dxgk: " fmt
> +#define pr_fmt2(fmt)	"dxgk:    " fmt
This will be fixed in the next patch set.
Why?

> +
> +#define DXGKDEBUG 1
> +/* #define USEPRINTK 1 */
> +
> +#ifndef DXGKDEBUG
> +#define TRACE_DEBUG(...)
> +#define TRACE_DEFINE(...)
> +#define TRACE_FUNC_ENTER(...)
> +#define TRACE_FUNC_EXIT(...)

No, please do not to custom "trace" printk messages, that is what ftrace
is for, no individual driver should ever need to do that.

Just use the normal dev_*() calls for error messages and the like, do
not try to come up with a custom tracing framework for one tiny
individual driver.  If every driver in kernel did that, we would have a
nightmare...
I understand the concern. This will be fixed later when we learn and pick the final tracing technology for the driver. The current implementation allows the hardware vendors to quickly identify issues without learning about ftrace. They just need to enable the WSL debug console and mount debugfs.
thanks,

greg k-h

Thank you for your time and good comments.
Iouri




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