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Message-ID: <96C502AC-8AE1-49E4-9A2C-88FB25306E48@oracle.com>
Date:	Thu, 09 Apr 2015 06:31:17 -0400
From:	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
To:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
CC:	Aravind Gopalakrishnan <Aravind.Gopalakrishnan@....com>,
	mingo@...hat.com, tglx@...utronix.de, hpa@...or.com,
	x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86, iommu: Fix header comments regarding standard and _FINISH macros

On April 9, 2015 3:54:08 AM EDT, Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de> wrote:
>On Thu, Apr 09, 2015 at 09:37:44AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>> So while we are touching it, how about making it more readable:
>> 
>>     *
>>     * The standard vs the _FINISH variants differ in that the
>>     * standard variant will continue detecting other IOMMUs in the 
>>     * call list after the detection routine returns a positive
>number. 
>>     * The _FINISH variant will stop the execution chain. Both
>variants 
>>     * will still call the 'init' and ...
>>     *
>
>I went a step further :-)
>
>---
>From: Aravind Gopalakrishnan <Aravind.Gopalakrishnan@....com>
>Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2015 10:46:57 -0500
>Subject: [PATCH] x86/iommu: Fix header comments regarding standard and
>_FINISH
> macros
>
>The comment line regarding IOMMU_INIT and IOMMU_INIT_FINISH macros
>is incorrect:
>
>"The standard vs the _FINISH differs in that the _FINISH variant will
>continue detecting other IOMMUs in the call list..."
>
>It should be "..the *standard* variant will continue detecting..."
>
>Fix that. Also, make it readable while at it.
>
>Signed-off-by: Aravind Gopalakrishnan <Aravind.Gopalakrishnan@....com>
>Fixes: 6e9636693373 ("x86, iommu: Update header comments with
>appropriate naming")
>Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
>Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com>
>Cc: x86-ml <x86@...nel.org>
>Cc: konrad.wilk@...cle.com
>Link:
>http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1428508017-5316-1-git-send-email-Aravind.Gopalakrishnan@amd.com
>Signed-off-by: 

What is with that empty SoB?


Otherwise Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
>---
> arch/x86/include/asm/iommu_table.h | 11 ++++++-----
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
>diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/iommu_table.h
>b/arch/x86/include/asm/iommu_table.h
>index f42a04735a0a..e37d6b3ad983 100644
>--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/iommu_table.h
>+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/iommu_table.h
>@@ -79,11 +79,12 @@ struct iommu_table_entry {
>*  d). Similar to the 'init', except that this gets called from
>pci_iommu_init
>  *      where we do have a memory allocator.
>  *
>- * The standard vs the _FINISH differs in that the _FINISH variant
>will
>- * continue detecting other IOMMUs in the call list after the
>- * the detection routine returns a positive number. The _FINISH will
>- * stop the execution chain. Both will still call the 'init' and
>- * 'late_init' functions if they are set.
>+ * The standard IOMMU_INIT differs from the IOMMU_INIT_FINISH variant
>+ * in that the former will continue detecting other IOMMUs in the call
>+ * list after the detection routine returns a positive number, while
>the
>+ * latter will stop the execution chain upon first successful
>detection.
>+ * Both variants will still call the 'init' and 'late_init' functions
>if
>+ * they are set.
>  */
> #define IOMMU_INIT_FINISH(_detect, _depend, _init, _late_init)		\
> 	__IOMMU_INIT(_detect, _depend, _init, _late_init, 1)


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