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| From: | Paolo Bonzini |
| Subject: | Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 2/2] intel_iommu: Fix unexpected unmaps during global unmap |
| Date: | Mon, 24 Jun 2019 15:21:12 +0200 |
| User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.6.1 |
On 24/06/19 14:48, Auger Eric wrote:
>>>> + if (alignment <= size) {
>>>> + /* Increase the alignment of start */
>>> I don't really get this comment
>> This comment comes from Paolo, but I'll try to explain - it tries to
>> mean that this "alignment" will be used as an increasement to "start"
>> variable, so finally variable "start" will align with larger mask
>> size.
>>
>> Better comments welcomed... :)
> smallest page mask from @start or gaw?
What it means is that there will be "more 0 bits" at the beginning of
start. Perhaps "On the next iteration start will be aligned to a bigger
power of two"? I can do this when applying.
Paolo
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