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From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
To: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Cc: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>,
	<iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	David Brown <davidb@codeaurora.org>,
	Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>, Stuart Yoder <b08248@gmail.com>,
	Hiroshi Doyu <hdoyu@nvidia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] iommu/amd: Implement DOMAIN_ATTR_GEOMETRY attribute
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:26:58 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F219AF2.6070108@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201201191727.10176.laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>

On 01/19/2012 10:27 AM, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> Hi Joerg,
> 
> On Thursday 19 January 2012 17:07:39 Joerg Roedel wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 04:46:13PM +0100, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
>>>> +struct iommu_domain_geometry {
>>>> +	u64 aperture_start;	/* First address that can be mapped    */
>>>> +	u64 aperture_end;	/* Last address that can be mapped     */
>>>
>>> Would it make sense to use a platform-dependent type that represents
>>> physical addresses instead of u64 ?
>>
>> Well, u64 is a catch-all datatype which should suit all drivers. Is this
>> a problem at ARM?
> 
> No, it's not a problem for ARM, at least to my knowledge. It just struck me as 
> weird, as we have specific data types for other kinds of addresses (such as 
> dma_addr_t).

If we want to be able to expose these attribute structs to userspace via
vfio, we'll want to stick with fixed size types.

-Scott


  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-01-26 18:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-19 14:30 [PATCH 0/5] IOMMU: Make IOMMU-API ready for GART-like hardware Joerg Roedel
2012-01-19 14:30 ` [PATCH 1/5] iommu: Add domain-attribute handlers Joerg Roedel
2012-01-19 14:30 ` [PATCH 2/5] iommu/amd: Implement DOMAIN_ATTR_GEOMETRY attribute Joerg Roedel
2012-01-19 15:46   ` Laurent Pinchart
2012-01-19 16:07     ` Joerg Roedel
2012-01-19 16:27       ` Laurent Pinchart
2012-01-20  5:44         ` Hiroshi Doyu
2012-01-20 16:01         ` Joerg Roedel
2012-02-01  9:37           ` Sethi Varun-B16395
2012-01-26 18:26         ` Scott Wood [this message]
2012-01-19 17:16   ` Sethi Varun-B16395
2012-01-20 16:03     ` Joerg Roedel
2012-01-26 18:25       ` Scott Wood
2012-01-26 18:31         ` Joerg Roedel
2012-01-26 18:42           ` Scott Wood
2012-01-26 18:51             ` Joerg Roedel
2012-01-26 19:00               ` Scott Wood
2012-01-26 19:44                 ` Joerg Roedel
2012-01-26 20:02                   ` Scott Wood
2012-01-27 11:01                     ` Joerg Roedel
2012-01-27 21:22                       ` Scott Wood
2012-01-30 14:24                         ` Joerg Roedel
2012-01-30 20:21                           ` Scott Wood
2012-01-30  6:27               ` Sethi Varun-B16395
2012-01-30 14:30                 ` Joerg Roedel
2012-01-19 14:30 ` [PATCH 3/5] iommu/vt-d: " Joerg Roedel
2012-01-19 14:30 ` [PATCH 4/5] iommu/omap: " Joerg Roedel
2012-01-19 14:30 ` [PATCH 5/5] iommu/msm: " Joerg Roedel
2012-01-20  6:14 ` [PATCH 0/5] IOMMU: Make IOMMU-API ready for GART-like hardware Hiroshi Doyu
2012-01-20 16:05   ` joerg.roedel

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