linux-kernel - Re: [v4 2/8] iommu, x86: Define new irte structure for VT-d Posted-Interrupts

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <20150331151643.GF22683@8bytes.org>
Date:	Tue, 31 Mar 2015 17:16:43 +0200
From:	Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>
To:	"Wu, Feng" <feng.wu@...el.com>
Cc:	"dwmw2@...radead.org" <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	"jiang.liu@...ux.intel.com" <jiang.liu@...ux.intel.com>,
	"iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org" <iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [v4 2/8] iommu, x86: Define new irte structure for VT-d
 Posted-Interrupts

On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 02:32:01AM +0000, Wu, Feng wrote:
> > I think it is better to put this as a union into struct irte. It saves
> > memory and unnecessary casting in later patches.
> 
> Thanks for the comments!

Thinking more about this, I think its probably fine to keep the two
versions of the irte seperate like in this patch-set. It allows to
update the non-posted irte when the posted irte is active at the moment
and makes the transition between both irte variants easier.

But what I still don't like is the type casting necessary when calling
modify_irte(). Can you abstract this and put the decission whether irte
or irte_pi is set active into modify_irte? It required to change the
interface of modify_irte, but that should be easy.

	Joerg

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/