Re: [PATCH v10 05/10] iommu/amd: Introduce helper function to update 256-bit DTE

[Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>]

On Wed, Nov 13, 2024 at 08:50:08PM +0100, Uros Bizjak wrote:

> Then write_dte_upper128() would look like:
> 
> static void write_dte_upper128(struct dev_table_entry *ptr, struct
> dev_table_entry *new)
> {
>     struct dev_table_entry old = {}; <--- do we need to initialize struct here?
> 
>     old.data128[1] = ptr->data128[1];
> 
>     /*
>      * Preserve DTE_DATA2_INTR_MASK. This needs to be
>      * done here since it requires to be inside
>      * spin_lock(&dev_data->dte_lock) context.
>      */
>     new->data[2] &= ~DTE_DATA2_INTR_MASK;
>     new->data[2] |= old.data[2] & DTE_DATA2_INTR_MASK;
> 
>     iommu_atomic128_set(&ptr->data128[1], new->data128[1]);
> }
> 
> and in a similar way implement write_dte_lower128().

That makes sense to me, but also we have drifted really far from the
purpose of this series and missed this merge window because of this :\

Let's conclude something please

Jason