Re: [PATCH] add iommu_num_pages helper function

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On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 03:10:05AM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@xxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:50:27 +0200
> 
> > I think moving that function to x86-only code is the best solution for
> > now. Before moving it back to generic code we need an architecture
> > independent way to find out the IOMMU page size.
> 
> My suggestion (again) is to pass it in as a "const unsigned long
> io_page_size" argument and update the callers.

Ok, this has the advantage that it supports more than one IOMMU page
size per architecture and its also less intrusive.

Joerg

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