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From: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 20:06:51 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC sparc] Break up iommu from monolithic lock for the map to multiple pools/locks
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On (12/19/14 14:57), David Miller wrote:
> 
> The core operation is the range allocation.  So if you just put the
> powerpc alloc/free code (basically, the bulk of your patch) into
> lib/iommu-common.c or similar, that ought to be a good starting point.

sounds good, I'll do this and get back over the next week.
(Some things like the demap function pointer may need to be
generalized a bit, e.g., pass  the iommu_pool * to the callback for
other archs)

> 
> The patch set would look like:
> 
> 1) move powerpc iommu range alloc/free into lib/iommu-common.c
> 
> 2) make sparc64 use it