[PATCH v2 2/8] iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Replace s1_cfg with cdtab_cfg

Michael Shavit mshavit at google.com
Tue Aug 1 01:00:43 PDT 2023


On Tue, Aug 1, 2023 at 12:15 PM Nicolin Chen <nicolinc at nvidia.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jul 31, 2023 at 06:48:12PM +0800, Michael Shavit wrote:
>
> > arm_smmu_ctx_desc_cfg is renamed to arm_smmu_cdtab_cfg to make it more
>
> There seems to be no change of renaming "arm_smmu_ctx_desc_cfg" to
> "arm_smmu_cdtab_cfg". Even PATCH-8 only renames the local variable
> "cdcfg" to "cd_table". Also, we should not use PATCH-8 to justify
> this change, because it makes this patch less convincing since the
> PATCH-8 might not get applied at all.

Oof sorry for the mixup. I made the change described in the changelog
but then undid it based on the last few messages of the last thread.
This commit is identical to the v1 change where cdcfg is only renamed
to cd_table in places that we touch.
Will fix the message.



>
> > obvious that it represents a cd table. The max number of CDs that can be
> > represented by the CD table is stored in this truct in its log2 form
> > since it is more useful for users of the CD table, and replaces the
> > s1cdmax field in s1_cfg. Instead of storing s1_cfg.s1fmt, it can also be
> > trivially computed from the cdtab_cfg, and is therefore removed from
> > s1_cfg.
>
> The commit message does not quite well describe why "replace s1_cfg
> with cd_table" in the subject. It could mention that the goal here
> is to move cdtab to the master structure. And "unwrap s1_cfg" might
> be more fitting in the subject, IMHO.
>
> Thanks
> Nicolin



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