Re: [PATCH v7 08/12] powerpc/vas: Define vas_win_id()
From: Sukadev Bhattiprolu
Date: Mon Aug 28 2017 - 00:53:30 EST
Michael Ellerman [mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] wrote:
> Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > Define an interface to return a system-wide unique id for a given VAS
> > window.
> >
> > The vas_win_id() will be used in a follow-on patch to generate an unique
> > handle for a user space receive window. Applications can use this handle
> > to pair send and receive windows for fast thread-wakeup.
> >
> > The hardware refers to this system-wide unique id as a Partition Send
> > Window ID which is expected to be used during fault handling. Hence the
> > "pswid" in the function names.
>
> Same comment as previous patch.
Ok will drop them for now.
>
> cheers