linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 5/6] powerpc/pseries/iommu: Make use of DDW even if it does not map the partition

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Date:   Thu, 2 Jul 2020 10:31:36 +1000
From:   Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@...abs.ru>
To:     Leonardo Bras <leobras.c@...il.com>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Ram Pai <linuxram@...ibm.com>
Cc:     linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 5/6] powerpc/pseries/iommu: Make use of DDW even if it
 does not map the partition



On 02/07/2020 09:48, Leonardo Bras wrote:
> On Wed, 2020-07-01 at 16:57 -0300, Leonardo Bras wrote:
>>> It is not necessarily "direct" anymore as the name suggests, you may
>>> want to change that. DMA64_PROPNAME, may be. Thanks,
>>>
>>
>> Yeah, you are right.
>> I will change this for next version, also changing the string name to
>> reflect this.
>>
>> -#define DIRECT64_PROPNAME "linux,direct64-ddr-window-info"
>> +#define DMA64_PROPNAME "linux,dma64-ddr-window-info"
>>
>> Is that ok?
>>
>> Thank you for helping!
> 
> In fact, there is a lot of places in this file where it's called direct
> window. Should I replace everything?
> Should it be in a separated patch?

If it looks simple and you write a nice commit log explaining all that
and why you are not reusing the existing ibm,dma-window property (to
provide a clue what "reset" will reset to? is there any other reason?)
for that - sure, do it :)



-- 
Alexey