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authorXie Yongji <[email protected]>2021-07-15 16:00:26 +0800
committerMichael S. Tsirkin <[email protected]>2021-08-11 06:44:23 -0400
commitc8d182bd387a09a8b95303c8086238e8bf61fcfc (patch)
tree72d7850c0a57529db989fd03a98b1fb108c64c83
parent1057afa0121db8bd3ca4718c8e0ca12388ab7759 (diff)
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 <[email protected]> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <[email protected]> Acked-by: Jason Wang <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Stefano Garzarella <[email protected]>
-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, \