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From: Avi Kivity on 7 Feb 2010 04:40
On 01/28/2010 01:37 PM, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> These two functions provide support for mapping and
> unmapping physical addresses to io virtual addresses. The
> difference to the iommu_(un)map_range() is that the new
> functions take a gfp_order parameter instead of a size. This
> allows the IOMMU backend implementations to detect easier if
> a given range can be mapped by larger page sizes.
> These new functions should replace the old ones in the long
> term.
>

These seem to be less flexible in the long term. Sure, it is easier for
the backend to map to multiple page sizes if your iommu supports
arbitrary power-of-two page sizes, but we should make the APIs easier
for the callers, not the backend.


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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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