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

Leonardo Bras leonardo at linux.ibm.com
Thu Dec 5 05:26:50 AEDT 2019


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? 

Best regards,

Leonardo
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