Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] powerpc: add real mode support for dma operations on powernv

From: Alexey Kardashevskiy <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2013 17:31:50 +1000

On 07/08/2013 05:20 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-07-08 at 14:44 +1000, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
> 
>> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/pci.h b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/pci.h
>> index 25d76c4..7ea82c1 100644
>> --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/pci.h
>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/pci.h
>> @@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ struct pnv_ioda_pe {
>>  	int			tce32_seg;
>>  	int			tce32_segcount;
>>  	struct iommu_table	tce32_table;
>> +	phys_addr_t		it_index_rm;
> 
> Please ....
> 
> The fact that we hijack the it_index field of the iommu table
> for the virtual address is bad enough, but really don't need
> to perpetuate this :-)
> 
> Call the field something decent such as "tce_inval_reg_phys"

Yes we can. I just find it veeeeeeery attractive when I can grep "\<it_"
and get all users of iommu_table.

btw is phys_addr_t correct here?

-- 
Alexey