Thread (6 messages) flat view 6 messages, 3 authors, 2018-12-11

Re: [PATCH] ocxl: Simplify free_spa()

From: Andrew Donnellan <hidden>
Date: 2018-12-11 09:13:29
Also in: stable

On 11/12/18 7:57 pm, Greg Kurz wrote:
I now realize that I should have mentioned the real motivation for this
change. I'm working on refactoring the code so that we can use ocxl in a
KVM guest. The concept of link can be shared by both powernv and pseries
variants but the SPA is definitely a powernv only thingy. The benefit
of this patch is hence to kick 'struct link' out of free_spa() so that
it can be utimately moved to powernv specific code.

The initial version of this change was just moving the link->spa check
and link->spa = NULL to the callers, where it was quite obvious they're
not needed... Should I re-post this as two patches for clarity ?
Ah, that makes much more sense.

If that's the case, then why not go all the way and change the function 
signature while you're at it?

-- 
Andrew Donnellan              OzLabs, ADL Canberra
andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com  IBM Australia Limited
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