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From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
To: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
	David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>,
	kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH kernel v2 5/6] KVM: PPC: Move reusable bits of H_PUT_TCE handler to helpers
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2016 15:39:37 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160211043937.GC9757@oak.ozlabs.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1453361977-19589-6-git-send-email-aik@ozlabs.ru>

On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 06:39:36PM +1100, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
> Upcoming multi-tce support (H_PUT_TCE_INDIRECT/H_STUFF_TCE hypercalls)
> will validate TCE (not to have unexpected bits) and IO address
> (to be within the DMA window boundaries).
> 
> This introduces helpers to validate TCE and IO address. The helpers are
> exported as they compile into vmlinux (to work in realmode) and will be
> used later by KVM kernel module in virtual mode.

Comments below...

> +/* Note on the use of page_address() in real mode,
> + *
> + * It is safe to use page_address() in real mode on ppc64 because
> + * page_address() is always defined as lowmem_page_address()
> + * which returns __va(PFN_PHYS(page_to_pfn(page))) which is arithmetial

"arithmetic" not "arithmetial"

> + * operation and does not access page struct.
> + *
> + * Theoretically page_address() could be defined different
> + * but either WANT_PAGE_VIRTUAL or HASHED_PAGE_VIRTUAL
> + * should be enabled.

"would have to be enabled" not "should be enabled"

Apart from those nits, the patch looks fine.

Paul.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-02-11  5:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-21  7:39 [PATCH kernel v2 0/6] KVM: PPC: Add in-kernel multitce handling Alexey Kardashevskiy
2016-01-21  7:39 ` [PATCH kernel v2 1/6] KVM: PPC: Rework H_PUT_TCE/H_GET_TCE handlers Alexey Kardashevskiy
2016-01-22  0:42   ` David Gibson
2016-01-22  1:59     ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2016-01-24 23:43       ` David Gibson
2016-02-11  4:11       ` Paul Mackerras
2016-01-21  7:39 ` [PATCH kernel v2 2/6] KVM: PPC: Use RCU for arch.spapr_tce_tables Alexey Kardashevskiy
2016-01-24 23:46   ` David Gibson
2016-01-21  7:39 ` [PATCH kernel v2 3/6] KVM: PPC: Account TCE-containing pages in locked_vm Alexey Kardashevskiy
2016-01-24 23:57   ` David Gibson
2016-01-21  7:39 ` [PATCH kernel v2 4/6] KVM: PPC: Replace SPAPR_TCE_SHIFT with IOMMU_PAGE_SHIFT_4K Alexey Kardashevskiy
2016-01-21  7:39 ` [PATCH kernel v2 5/6] KVM: PPC: Move reusable bits of H_PUT_TCE handler to helpers Alexey Kardashevskiy
2016-01-25  0:12   ` David Gibson
2016-01-25  0:18     ` David Gibson
2016-02-11  4:39   ` Paul Mackerras [this message]
2016-01-21  7:39 ` [PATCH kernel v2 6/6] KVM: PPC: Add support for multiple-TCE hcalls Alexey Kardashevskiy
2016-01-21  7:56   ` kbuild test robot
2016-01-21  8:09     ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2016-01-25  0:44   ` David Gibson
2016-01-25  1:24     ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2016-01-25  5:21       ` David Gibson
2016-02-11  5:32   ` Paul Mackerras
2016-02-12  4:54     ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2016-02-12  5:52       ` Paul Mackerras

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