Re: [PATCH v6 02/10] iommu/vt-d: Add custom allocator for IOASID

From: Jacob Pan
Date: Wed Oct 23 2019 - 18:57:33 EST


On Wed, 23 Oct 2019 10:21:51 +0800
Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> >> +#ifdef CONFIG_INTEL_IOMMU_SVM
> >
> > Maybe move them to intel-svm.c instead? that's where the bulk
> > of the svm support is?
>
> I think this is a generic PASID allocator for guest IOMMU although
> vSVA is currently the only consumer. Instead of making it SVM
> specific, I'd like to suggest moving it to intel-pasid.c and replace
> the @svm parameter with a void * one in intel_ioasid_free().

make sense to use void*, no need to tie that to svm bind data type.

In terms of location, perhaps we can move if we have more consumers of
custom allocator?