[PATCH] ocxl: Simplify free_spa()
Andrew Donnellan
andrew.donnellan at au1.ibm.com
Tue Dec 11 20:13:21 AEDT 2018
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?
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Andrew Donnellan OzLabs, ADL Canberra
andrew.donnellan at au1.ibm.com IBM Australia Limited
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