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From: tglx@linutronix.de (Thomas Gleixner)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v12 02/11] genirq/msi: msi_compose wrapper
Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2016 11:19:18 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1608091117250.5388@nanos> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1470158617-7022-3-git-send-email-eric.auger@redhat.com>

On Tue, 2 Aug 2016, Eric Auger wrote:

> Currently the MSI message is composed by directly calling
> irq_chip_compose_msi_msg and erased by setting the memory to zero.
> 
> On some platforms, we will need to complexify this composition to
> properly handle MSI emission through IOMMU. Also we will need to track
> when the MSI message is erased.

I just can't find how you do that. After applying the series the

> +	if (erase)
> +		memset(msg, 0, sizeof(*msg));

branch is still just a memset(). The wrapper is fine for the compose side, but
having the extra argument just to wrap the memset() for no gain is silly.

Thanks,

	tglx

  reply	other threads:[~2016-08-09  9:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-02 17:23 [PATCH v12 00/11] KVM PCIe/MSI passthrough on ARM/ARM64: kernel part 2/3: msi changes Eric Auger
2016-08-02 17:23 ` [PATCH v12 01/11] genirq/msi: export msi_get_domain_info Eric Auger
2016-08-02 17:23 ` [PATCH v12 02/11] genirq/msi: msi_compose wrapper Eric Auger
2016-08-09  9:19   ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2016-08-10  8:48     ` Auger Eric
2016-08-02 17:23 ` [PATCH v12 03/11] genirq: Introduce irq_get_msi_doorbell_info Eric Auger
2016-08-02 17:23 ` [PATCH v12 04/11] genirq/msi: Allow MSI doorbell (un)registration Eric Auger
2016-08-02 17:23 ` [PATCH v12 05/11] genirq/msi: msi_doorbell_calc_pages Eric Auger
2016-08-02 17:23 ` [PATCH v12 06/11] genirq/msi: msi_doorbell_safe Eric Auger
2016-08-02 17:23 ` [PATCH v12 07/11] irqchip/gic-v2m: Register the MSI global doorbell Eric Auger
2016-08-02 17:23 ` [PATCH v12 08/11] irqchip/gicv3-its: " Eric Auger
2016-08-02 17:23 ` [PATCH v12 09/11] genirq/msi: Introduce msi_desc flags Eric Auger
2016-08-09  6:52   ` Auger Eric
2016-08-02 17:23 ` [PATCH v12 10/11] genirq/msi: Map/unmap the MSI doorbells on msi_domain_alloc/free_irqs Eric Auger
2016-08-02 17:23 ` [PATCH v12 11/11] genirq/msi: Use the MSI doorbell's IOVA when requested Eric Auger

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