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Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2023 18:51:59 -0800
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Mina Almasry <almasrymina@...gle.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH net-next v1 2/4] net: introduce abstraction for
network memory
On Wed, 13 Dec 2023 18:05:25 -0800 Mina Almasry wrote:
> +struct netmem {
> + union {
> + struct page page;
> +
> + /* Stub to prevent compiler implicitly converting from page*
> + * to netmem_t* and vice versa.
> + *
> + * Other memory type(s) net stack would like to support
> + * can be added to this union.
> + */
> + void *addr;
> + };
> +};
My mind went to something like:
typedef unsigned long __bitwise netmem_ref;
instead. struct netmem does not exist, it's a handle which has
to be converted to a real type using a helper.
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