[PATCH v2 02/12] ocxl: Change type of pasid to unsigned int

[Fenghua Yu]

Hi, Frederic,

On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 10:05:19AM +0200, Frederic Barrat wrote:
> 
> 
> Le 13/06/2020 à 02:41, Fenghua Yu a écrit :
> >PASID is defined as "int" although it's a 20-bit value and shouldn't be
> >negative int. To be consistent with type defined in iommu, define PASID
> >as "unsigned int".
> 
> 
> It looks like this patch was considered because of the use of 'pasid' in
> variable or function names. The ocxl driver only makes sense on powerpc and
> shouldn't compile on anything else, so it's probably useless in the context
> of that series.
> The pasid here is defined by the opencapi specification
> (https://opencapi.org), it is borrowed from the PCI world and you could
> argue it could be an unsigned int. But then I think the patch doesn't go far
> enough. But considering it's not used on x86, I think this patch can be
> dropped.

The first 3 patches clean up pasid and flag defitions to prepare for
following patches.

If you think this patch can be dropped, we will drop it.

Thanks.

-Fenghua