linux-kernel - [PATCH v1 0/2] Simplify mtty driver and mdev core

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Date:   Tue,  6 Aug 2019 09:18:24 -0500
From:   Parav Pandit <parav@...lanox.com>
To:     kvm@...r.kernel.org, wankhede@...dia.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     parav@...lanox.com, alex.williamson@...hat.com, cohuck@...hat.com,
        cjia@...dia.com
Subject: [PATCH v1 0/2] Simplify mtty driver and mdev core

Currently mtty sample driver uses mdev state and UUID in convoluated way to
generate an interrupt.
It uses several translations from mdev_state to mdev_device to mdev uuid.
After which it does linear search of long uuid comparision to
find out mdev_state in mtty_trigger_interrupt().
mdev_state is already available while generating interrupt from which all
such translations are done to reach back to mdev_state.

This translations are done during interrupt generation path.
This is unnecessary and reduandant.

Hence,
Patch-1 simplifies mtty sample driver to directly use mdev_state.

Patch-2, Since no production driver uses mdev_uuid() and mdev's name
(derived from UUID) is already available using core kernel dev_name(),
this patch simplifies and removes redandant mdev_uuid() exported symbol.

Parav Pandit (2):
  vfio-mdev/mtty: Simplify interrupt generation
  vfio/mdev: Removed unused and redundant API for mdev UUID

 drivers/vfio/mdev/mdev_core.c |  6 ------
 include/linux/mdev.h          |  1 -
 samples/vfio-mdev/mtty.c      | 39 +++++++----------------------------
 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-)

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