linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 00/14] cxl: Address translation support, part 1: Cleanups and refactoring

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Message-ID: <681e2e2dd78d4_27eca029482@dwillia2-xfh.jf.intel.com.notmuch>
Date: Fri, 9 May 2025 09:32:45 -0700
From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
To: Robert Richter <rrichter@....com>, Alison Schofield
	<alison.schofield@...el.com>, Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@...el.com>, "Ira
 Weiny" <ira.weiny@...el.com>, Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
	Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@...wei.com>, Dave Jiang
	<dave.jiang@...el.com>, Davidlohr Bueso <dave@...olabs.net>
CC: <linux-cxl@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Gregory Price
	<gourry@...rry.net>, "Fabio M. De Francesco"
	<fabio.m.de.francesco@...ux.intel.com>, Terry Bowman <terry.bowman@....com>,
	Robert Richter <rrichter@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 00/14] cxl: Address translation support, part 1:
 Cleanups and refactoring

Robert Richter wrote:
> This series is the first part of adding support for CXL address
> translation. It contains cleanup and code refactoring in preparation
> of the actual implementation that will be sent in part 2. Cleanup and
> code refactoring have been split in a separate series to reduce the
> number of patches of the series. Even without address translation on
> top this rework improves esp. the region code, cleans it up,
> simplifies it and adds debugging messages to better analyze region
> creation failures:
> 
[..]
> 
> v6:
>  * added tags to SOB chain,
>  * added more occurences to remove-else-after-return (Alison),
>  * updated description of cxl_port_pick_region_decoder() (Fabio),
[..]

Aside from the "obj __free(...) = NULL" anti-pattern to clean up, for
the series, you can add:

Acked-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>