Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/16] dma-debug: add hash functions for dma_debug_entries

From: Evgeniy Polyakov <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 21:23:39 +0300

On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 07:14:46PM +0100, Joerg Roedel ([email-masked]) wrote:
> > > +static struct hash_bucket *get_hash_bucket(struct dma_debug_entry *entry,
> > > +					   unsigned long *flags)
> > > +{
> > > +	int idx = hash_fn(entry);
> > > +	unsigned long __flags;
> > > +
> > > +	spin_lock_irqsave(&dma_entry_hash[idx].lock, __flags);
> > > +	*flags = __flags;
> > > +	return &dma_entry_hash[idx];
> > > +}
> > > +
> > > +/*
> > > + * Give up exclusive access to the hash bucket
> > > + */
> > > +static void put_hash_bucket(struct hash_bucket *bucket,
> > > +			    unsigned long *flags)
> > > +{
> > > +	unsigned long __flags = *flags;
> > > +
> > > +	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&bucket->lock, __flags);
> > > +}
> > 
> > Why do you need such ugly helpers?
> 
> Because everything else I thought about here was even more ugly. But
> maybe you have a better idea? I tried to lock directly in the debug_
> functions. But this is ugly and unnecessary code duplication.

I believe that having direct locking in the debug_ functions is not a
duplication, anyone will have a direct vision on the locking and hash
array dereference, and this will be just one additional line compared to
the get_* call and the same number of lines for the put :)

-- 
	Evgeniy Polyakov