[PATCH v1 0/2] Simplify mtty driver and mdev core

From: Parav Pandit <parav@mellanox.com>
To: kvm@vger.kernel.org, wankhede@nvidia.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: parav@mellanox.com, alex.williamson@redhat.com,
	cohuck@redhat.com, cjia@nvidia.com
Subject: [PATCH v1 0/2] Simplify mtty driver and mdev core
Date: Tue,  6 Aug 2019 09:18:24 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190806141826.52712-1-parav@mellanox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190802065905.45239-1-parav@mellanox.com>

Currently mtty sample driver uses mdev state and UUID in convoluated way to
generate an interrupt.
It uses several translations from mdev_state to mdev_device to mdev uuid.
After which it does linear search of long uuid comparision to
find out mdev_state in mtty_trigger_interrupt().
mdev_state is already available while generating interrupt from which all
such translations are done to reach back to mdev_state.

This translations are done during interrupt generation path.
This is unnecessary and reduandant.

Hence,
Patch-1 simplifies mtty sample driver to directly use mdev_state.

Patch-2, Since no production driver uses mdev_uuid() and mdev's name
(derived from UUID) is already available using core kernel dev_name(),
this patch simplifies and removes redandant mdev_uuid() exported symbol.

Parav Pandit (2):
  vfio-mdev/mtty: Simplify interrupt generation
  vfio/mdev: Removed unused and redundant API for mdev UUID

 drivers/vfio/mdev/mdev_core.c |  6 ------
 include/linux/mdev.h          |  1 -
 samples/vfio-mdev/mtty.c      | 39 +++++++----------------------------
 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-)

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