Re: [PATCH 1/7] powerpc: Add interface to get msi region information

[Bjorn Helgaas]

>> -     u32 msiir_offset; /* Offset of MSIIR, relative to start of CCSR */
>> +     dma_addr_t msiir; /* MSIIR Address in CCSR */
>
> Are you sure dma_addr_t is right here, versus phys_addr_t?  It implies
> that it's the output of the DMA API, but I don't think the DMA API is
> used in the MSI driver.  Perhaps it should be, but we still want the raw
> physical address to pass on to VFIO.

I don't know what "msiir" is used for, but if it's an address you
program into a PCI device, then it's a dma_addr_t even if you didn't
get it from the DMA API.  Maybe "bus_addr_t" would have been a more
suggestive name than "dma_addr_t".  That said, I have no idea how this
relates to VFIO.

Bjorn
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