Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] powerpc/pseries/iommu: Share the per-cpu TCE page with the hypervisor.

From: Ram Pai
Date: Wed Dec 04 2019 - 15:28:08 EST


On Wed, Dec 04, 2019 at 03:26:50PM -0300, Leonardo Bras wrote:
> On Sun, 2019-12-01 at 22:45 -0800, Ram Pai wrote:
> > @@ -206,8 +224,7 @@ static int tce_buildmulti_pSeriesLP(struct iommu_table *tbl, long tcenum,
> > * from iommu_alloc{,_sg}()
> > */
> > if (!tcep) {
> > - tcep = (__be64 *)__get_free_page(GFP_ATOMIC);
> > - /* If allocation fails, fall back to the loop implementation */
> > + tcep = alloc_tce_page();
> > if (!tcep) {
> > local_irq_restore(flags);
> > return tce_build_pSeriesLP(tbl, tcenum, npages, uaddr,
>
> The comment about failing allocation was removed, but I see no chage of
> behaviour here.
>
> Can you please explain what/where it changes?

You observed it right. The comment should stay put. Will have it fixed
in my next version.

Thanks,
RP