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Re: [PATCH v1] drivers: Change amd_iommu struct to contain pci_sbdf_t, simplify code


  • To: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>, Andriy Sultanov <sultanovandriy@xxxxxxxxx>
  • From: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2025 12:15:09 +0100
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  • Cc: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>, Jason Andryuk <jason.andryuk@xxxxxxx>
  • Delivery-date: Fri, 14 Mar 2025 11:15:15 +0000
  • List-id: Xen developer discussion <xen-devel.lists.xenproject.org>

On 14.03.2025 10:30, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> On 14/03/2025 8:56 am, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> On 14.03.2025 09:07, Andriy Sultanov wrote:
>>> On Thu, 13 Mar 2025 at 19:59, Jason Andryuk <jason.andryuk@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> On 2025-03-13 14:57, Andrii Sultanov wrote:
>>>>> --- a/xen/drivers/passthrough/amd/iommu.h
>>>>> +++ b/xen/drivers/passthrough/amd/iommu.h
>>>>> @@ -77,8 +77,14 @@ struct amd_iommu {
>>>>>       struct list_head list;
>>>>>       spinlock_t lock; /* protect iommu */
>>>>>
>>>>> -    u16 seg;
>>>>> -    u16 bdf;
>>>>> +    union {
>>>>> +        struct {
>>>>> +            uint16_t bdf;
>>>>> +            uint16_t seg;
>>>> Are these still needed by the end of this patch?
>>> Yes - otherwise the patch would be larger as bdf and seg would be one
>>> namespace deeper - /iommu->seg/iommu->sbdf.seg/
>> This kind of union is fragile. Hence we want to avoid it, even if this means
>> an overall larger diff.
> 
> This is my suggestion, and it's the pattern used in struct pci_dev.

And I'm hoping to eliminate it there, too, at some point. But adding a hidden
dependency on the layout in an entirely different part of the tree just cannot
do us any good.

> pci_sbdf_t is nice for code generation, but it's not great for source
> verbosity.

I agree, yet if anything we'd need a global approach to deal with that
aspect.

Jan



 


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