On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 06:39:36PM +1100, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:

Upcoming multi-tce support (H_PUT_TCE_INDIRECT/H_STUFF_TCE hypercalls)
will validate TCE (not to have unexpected bits) and IO address
(to be within the DMA window boundaries).

This introduces helpers to validate TCE and IO address. The helpers are
exported as they compile into vmlinux (to work in realmode) and will be
used later by KVM kernel module in virtual mode.

Comments below...

+/* Note on the use of page_address() in real mode,
+ *
+ * It is safe to use page_address() in real mode on ppc64 because
+ * page_address() is always defined as lowmem_page_address()
+ * which returns __va(PFN_PHYS(page_to_pfn(page))) which is arithmetial

"arithmetic" not "arithmetial"

+ * operation and does not access page struct.
+ *
+ * Theoretically page_address() could be defined different
+ * but either WANT_PAGE_VIRTUAL or HASHED_PAGE_VIRTUAL
+ * should be enabled.

"would have to be enabled" not "should be enabled"

Apart from those nits, the patch looks fine.

Paul.