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From: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
To: Frederic Barrat <fbarrat@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	H Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com>,
	Andrew Donnellan <ajd@linux.ibm.com>,
	Felix Kuehling <Felix.Kuehling@amd.com>,
	Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
	Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>, Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>,
	Jacob Jun Pan <jacob.jun.pan@intel.com>,
	Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>,
	Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com>,
	Sohil Mehta <sohil.mehta@intel.com>,
	Ravi V Shankar <ravi.v.shankar@intel.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 02/12] ocxl: Change type of pasid to unsigned int
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2020 08:37:47 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200618153747.GE15763@romley-ivt3.sc.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <972dc2cb-9643-53af-b11d-ebb56d96053d@linux.ibm.com>

Hi, Frederic,

On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 10:05:19AM +0200, Frederic Barrat wrote:
> 
> 
> Le 13/06/2020 à 02:41, Fenghua Yu a écrit :
> >PASID is defined as "int" although it's a 20-bit value and shouldn't be
> >negative int. To be consistent with type defined in iommu, define PASID
> >as "unsigned int".
> 
> 
> It looks like this patch was considered because of the use of 'pasid' in
> variable or function names. The ocxl driver only makes sense on powerpc and
> shouldn't compile on anything else, so it's probably useless in the context
> of that series.
> The pasid here is defined by the opencapi specification
> (https://opencapi.org), it is borrowed from the PCI world and you could
> argue it could be an unsigned int. But then I think the patch doesn't go far
> enough. But considering it's not used on x86, I think this patch can be
> dropped.

The first 3 patches clean up pasid and flag defitions to prepare for
following patches.

If you think this patch can be dropped, we will drop it.

Thanks.

-Fenghua

  reply	other threads:[~2020-06-18 15:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-13  0:41 [PATCH v2 00/12] x86: tag application address space for devices Fenghua Yu
2020-06-13  0:41 ` [PATCH v2 01/12] iommu: Change type of pasid to unsigned int Fenghua Yu
2020-06-13  0:41 ` [PATCH v2 02/12] ocxl: " Fenghua Yu
2020-06-18  8:05   ` Frederic Barrat
2020-06-18 15:37     ` Fenghua Yu [this message]
2020-06-18 16:56       ` Frederic Barrat
2020-06-13  0:41 ` [PATCH v2 03/12] iommu/vt-d: Change flags type to unsigned int in binding mm Fenghua Yu
2020-06-13  0:41 ` [PATCH v2 04/12] docs: x86: Add documentation for SVA (Shared Virtual Addressing) Fenghua Yu
2020-06-13 12:17   ` Lu Baolu
2020-06-15 23:16     ` Fenghua Yu
2020-06-13  0:41 ` [PATCH v2 05/12] x86/cpufeatures: Enumerate ENQCMD and ENQCMDS instructions Fenghua Yu
2020-06-13  0:41 ` [PATCH v2 06/12] x86/fpu/xstate: Add supervisor PASID state for ENQCMD feature Fenghua Yu
2020-06-13  0:41 ` [PATCH v2 07/12] x86/msr-index: Define IA32_PASID MSR Fenghua Yu
2020-06-13  0:41 ` [PATCH v2 08/12] mm: Define pasid in mm Fenghua Yu
2020-06-16  8:28   ` Jean-Philippe Brucker
2020-06-16 15:11     ` Fenghua Yu
2020-06-13  0:41 ` [PATCH v2 09/12] fork: Clear PASID for new mm Fenghua Yu
2020-06-13  0:41 ` [PATCH v2 10/12] x86/process: Clear PASID state for a newly forked/cloned thread Fenghua Yu
2020-06-13  0:41 ` [PATCH v2 11/12] x86/mmu: Allocate/free PASID Fenghua Yu
2020-06-13 13:07   ` Lu Baolu
2020-06-15  2:13   ` Lu Baolu
2020-06-13  0:41 ` [PATCH v2 12/12] x86/traps: Fix up invalid PASID Fenghua Yu
2020-06-15  7:53   ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-06-15  7:56   ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-06-15 15:48     ` Fenghua Yu
2020-06-15 16:03       ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-06-15 17:11         ` Luck, Tony
2020-06-15 18:12         ` Fenghua Yu
2020-06-15 18:31           ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-06-15 18:55             ` Fenghua Yu
2020-06-15 19:09               ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-06-15 20:17                 ` Fenghua Yu
2020-06-15 20:51                   ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-06-15 20:56                     ` Luck, Tony
2020-06-15 21:18                       ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-06-15 21:24                         ` Luck, Tony
2020-06-15 21:53                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-06-16 23:23                 ` Fenghua Yu
2020-06-17  8:31                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-06-15 18:19         ` Raj, Ashok
2020-06-15 18:32           ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-06-15  7:52 ` [PATCH v2 00/12] x86: tag application address space for devices Peter Zijlstra
2020-06-15 14:53   ` Fenghua Yu

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