linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V5 02/10] perf/amd/iommu: Consolidate and move perf_event_amd

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Message-ID: <20160318090441.GA7817@pd.tnic>
Date:	Fri, 18 Mar 2016 10:04:41 +0100
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:	Suravee Suthikulpanit <Suravee.Suthikulpanit@....com>
Cc:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, joro@...tes.org,
	mingo@...hat.com, acme@...nel.org, andihartmann@...enet.de,
	vw@...mu.org, labbott@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V5 02/10] perf/amd/iommu: Consolidate and move
 perf_event_amd_iommu header

On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 02:07:25PM +0700, Suravee Suthikulpanit wrote:
> Actually the exposed APIs (in both files) are from the AMD IOMMU driver,
> which is not necessary x86-specific. They mostly use struct pci_dev, which
> is also arch-agnostic. It is correct that the current IOMMU IP is only
> available in x86 systems. However, if AMD plans to use the IOMMU IP in the
> ARM-based processors in the future, putting these into
> include/linux/amd-iommu.h would work better.

Let's wait until AMD does that then. Moving the header is the easiest part.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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