On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 06:34:23AM -0400, Ohad Ben-Cohen wrote:
> Hi Joerg,
>
> On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Roedel, Joerg <Joerg.Roedel@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Please split this patch into the core-change and patches for the
> > individual iommu-drivers and post this as a seperate patch-set.
>
> But we'll be breaking bisectibility this way, no?
Not necessarily. You could implement this side-by-side with the old code
until all drivers are converted and remove the old code then. This keeps
bisectability.
> > Intel IOMMU does not support arbitrary page-sizes, afaik.
>
> It does; besides the usual 4K it has "super page sizes" support of
> 2MB, 1GB, 512GB and 1TB.
But the value ~0xfffUL indicates support for 4k, 8k, 16k .. 2^63, no?
>
> >> + pr_debug("map: iova 0x%lx pa 0x%lx size 0x%lx\n", iova,
> >> + (unsigned long)paddr, size);
> >
> > Please keep the debug-code in a seperate patch in your dev-tree. No need
> > for it to be merged upstream.
>
> It's actually useful sometimes to have those around - it's off by
> default, and can be enabled only when needed (CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG).
>
> But I don't mind removing them.
Ah right, it is just debug, so I am fine keeping it.
Joerg
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