linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/5] iommu: Implement iommu_put_resv_regions

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Date:   Mon, 16 Sep 2019 11:14:22 +0200
From:   Auger Eric <eric.auger@...hat.com>
To:     Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...il.com>,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>
Cc:     Jean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe@...aro.org>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>,
        David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] iommu: Implement iommu_put_resv_regions_simple()

Hi Thierry,

On 8/29/19 1:17 PM, Thierry Reding wrote:
> From: Thierry Reding <treding@...dia.com>
> 
> Most IOMMU drivers only need to free the memory allocated for each
> reserved region. Instead of open-coding the loop to do this in each
> driver, extract the code into a common function that can be used by
> all these drivers.

If I am not wrong, all the drivers now use the
iommu_put_resv_regions_simple helper. So we can wonder if the callback
is still relevant?

Thanks

Eric
> 
> Thierry
> 
> Thierry Reding (5):
>   iommu: Implement iommu_put_resv_regions_simple()
>   iommu: arm: Use iommu_put_resv_regions_simple()
>   iommu: amd: Use iommu_put_resv_regions_simple()
>   iommu: intel: Use iommu_put_resv_regions_simple()
>   iommu: virt: Use iommu_put_resv_regions_simple()
> 
>  drivers/iommu/amd_iommu.c    | 11 +----------
>  drivers/iommu/arm-smmu-v3.c  | 11 +----------
>  drivers/iommu/arm-smmu.c     | 11 +----------
>  drivers/iommu/intel-iommu.c  | 11 +----------
>  drivers/iommu/iommu.c        | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/iommu/virtio-iommu.c | 14 +++-----------
>  include/linux/iommu.h        |  2 ++
>  7 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 51 deletions(-)
>