Re: [RFC PATCH 33/35] Add the Xenbus sysfs and virtual device hotplug driver.

[Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>]

> +
> +extern struct semaphore xenwatch_mutex;

you know, there is this thing called "struct mutex", please use that
instead; don't add new deprecated semaphore's when using them as mutex


> +#define streq(a, b) (strcmp((a), (b)) == 0)

ehhh why?


> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(xenbus_register_frontend);

please consider _GPL


> +static void xenbus_dev_free(struct xenbus_device *xendev)
> +{
> +	kfree(xendev);
> +}

why this wrapper ?

> +
> +/* Simplified asprintf. */
> +char *kasprintf(const char *fmt, ...)
> +{
> +	va_list ap;
> +	unsigned int len;
> +	char *p, dummy[1];
> +
> +	va_start(ap, fmt);
> +	/* FIXME: vsnprintf has a bug, NULL should work */
> +	len = vsnprintf(dummy, 0, fmt, ap);
> +	va_end(ap);
> +
> +	p = kmalloc(len + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
> +	if (!p)
> +		return NULL;
> +	va_start(ap, fmt);
> +	vsprintf(p, fmt, ap);
> +	va_end(ap);
> +	return p;
> +}

this should take a gfp mask most likely



> +
> +		/* We don't refcnt properly, so set reserved on page.
> +		 * (this allocation is permanent) */
> +		SetPageReserved(virt_to_page(page));

you may want to reconsider this given the "recent" vm changes


> +	down(&xs_state.request_mutex);

please use a real mutex instead



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