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From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
To: Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org,
	Oleksandr Dmytryshyn <oleksandr.dmytryshyn@globallogic.com>,
	Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>,
	Andrii Anisov <andrii_anisov@epam.com>,
	Andrii Anisov <andrii.anisov@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] swiotlb-xen: implement xen_swiotlb_get_sgtable callback
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2017 10:11:02 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170201151102.GL20958@char.us.ORACLE.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <31bd03c7-0b5b-71bd-ef9c-e200121e34da@arm.com>

On Wed, Feb 01, 2017 at 02:30:53PM +0000, Julien Grall wrote:
> Hi Konrad,
> 
> On 01/02/2017 14:25, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 01, 2017 at 12:46:32PM +0200, Andrii Anisov wrote:
> > > Yup,
> > > 
> > > Following is wrong:
> > > > DEBUG macro could be globally across drivers defined by
> > > > CONFIG_DEBUG_DRIVERS. See drivers/base/Makefile.
> > > DEBUG is not defined globally. And there is no debug option to enable
> > > DEBUG in drivers/xen/Makefile.
> > > Should it be added?
> > 
> > I am not exactly sure why you guys insist on having this, but
> > the lets leave it as #if 0 along with a comment saying why and what
> > the purpose of this is.
> 
> From my understanding, the function has been implemented with the assumption
> of the page will always belongs to the domain and not foreign.
> 
> A user will unlikely know that it needs to remove #if 0 in order to check
> the driver is doing the right thing. So I think we should have an easy way
> to enable this code in kernel build.
> 
> If you are not happy with the Kconfig, what would be the other way to have
> this enabled without requiring the user to modify the code?

Just leave the #if 0 in the code and add a comment explaining why it is
there.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -- 
> Julien Grall

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Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-31 18:30 [PATCH v3 0/2] XEN SWIOTLB dma operations extension Andrii Anisov
2017-01-31 18:30 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] swiotlb-xen: implement xen_swiotlb_dma_mmap callback Andrii Anisov
2017-01-31 18:39   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2017-01-31 19:10     ` Stefano Stabellini
2017-02-01 11:46       ` Andrii Anisov
2017-02-01 14:24         ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2017-01-31 18:30 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] swiotlb-xen: implement xen_swiotlb_get_sgtable callback Andrii Anisov
2017-01-31 18:37   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2017-01-31 19:15     ` Stefano Stabellini
2017-01-31 19:17       ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2017-01-31 19:21         ` Stefano Stabellini
2017-02-01 10:42           ` Andrii Anisov
2017-02-01 10:57             ` Julien Grall
2017-02-01 10:58               ` Julien Grall
2017-02-01 10:19         ` Andrii Anisov
2017-02-01 10:46           ` Andrii Anisov
2017-02-01 14:25             ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2017-02-01 14:30               ` Julien Grall
2017-02-01 15:11                 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk [this message]

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