vhost: introduce vhost_vq_avail_empty()

This patch introduces a helper which will return true if we're sure
that the available ring is empty for a specific vq. When we're not
sure, e.g vq access failure, return false instead. This could be used
for busy polling code to exit the busy loop.
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>

drivers/vhost/vhost.c

@@ -1658,6 +1658,20 @@ void vhost_add_used_and_signal_n(struct vhost_dev *dev,
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vhost_add_used_and_signal_n);
 
+/* return true if we're sure that avaiable ring is empty */
+bool vhost_vq_avail_empty(struct vhost_dev *dev, struct vhost_virtqueue *vq)
+{
+	__virtio16 avail_idx;
+	int r;
+
+	r = __get_user(avail_idx, &vq->avail->idx);
+	if (r)
+		return false;
+
+	return vhost16_to_cpu(vq, avail_idx) == vq->avail_idx;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vhost_vq_avail_empty);
+
 /* OK, now we need to know about added descriptors. */
 bool vhost_enable_notify(struct vhost_dev *dev, struct vhost_virtqueue *vq)
 {

drivers/vhost/vhost.h

@@ -159,6 +159,7 @@ void vhost_add_used_and_signal_n(struct vhost_dev *, struct vhost_virtqueue *,
 			       struct vring_used_elem *heads, unsigned count);
 void vhost_signal(struct vhost_dev *, struct vhost_virtqueue *);
 void vhost_disable_notify(struct vhost_dev *, struct vhost_virtqueue *);
+bool vhost_vq_avail_empty(struct vhost_dev *, struct vhost_virtqueue *);
 bool vhost_enable_notify(struct vhost_dev *, struct vhost_virtqueue *);
 
 int vhost_log_write(struct vhost_virtqueue *vq, struct vhost_log *log,