On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 8:17 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
<benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-04-08 at 17:06 -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> I'll let Bjorn be the final judge here but I am not fan of the way you
> set/clear/set/clear the IORESOURCE_PREFETCH bit with
> pci_set_pref_under_pref(). It's error prone and confusing, the code is
> already barely readable as it is ...
We only use them to wrapping final pci_claim*, sizing, and assigning.
that is limited places.
>
> I would rather you replace those various masks compares with a helper
> that does something like pci_resource_compatible(parent_res, child_res),
> which has the logic to test. That or a helper that does something like
> pci_calc_compatible_res_flags() which returns a "flags" that has
> PREFETCH set, which you use in place of res->flags in the various
> allocation path.
That way should be more intrusive to current code, as we are using
type_mask checking to share the code among
parent(pref)/child(pref), parent(no-pref)/child(pref), and
parent(no-pref)/child(pref)
Yinghai
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