[PATCH v8 01/10] iommu/vt-d: Update iommu_attach_domain() and its callers

Li, ZhenHua zhen-hual at hp.com
Mon Jan 12 17:28:53 PST 2015


On 01/12/2015 11:18 PM, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 03:06:19PM +0800, Li, Zhen-Hua wrote:
>> Allow specification of the domain-id for the new domain.
>> This patch only adds the 'did' parameter to iommu_attach_domain()
>> and modifies all of its callers to specify the default value of -1
>> which says "no did specified, allocate a new one".
>
> I think its better to keep the old iommu_attach_domain() interface in
> place and introduce a new function (like iommu_attach_domain_with_id()
> or something) which has the additional parameter. Then you can rewrite
> iommu_attach_domain():
>
> 	iommu_attach_domai(...)
> 	{
> 		return iommu_attach_domain_with_id(..., -1);
> 	}
>
> This way you don't have to update all the callers of
> iommu_attach_domain() and the interface is more readable.
>
>
> 	Joerg
>

That's a good way. I will do this in next version.

Thanks
Zhenhua





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