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Jason Gunthorpe
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We want to get rid of struct page references outside the internal allocator implementation. The free list has the driver open code something like: list_add_tail(&virt_to_page(ptr)->lru, freelist); Move the above into a small inline and make the freelist into a wrapper type 'struct iommu_pages_list' so that the compiler can help check all the conversion. This struct has also proven helpful in some future ideas to convert to a singly linked list to get an extra pointer in the struct page, and to signal that the pages should be freed with RCU. Use a temporary _Generic so we don't need to rename the free function as the patches progress. Tested-by: Nicolin Chen <nicolinc@nvidia.com> Tested-by: Alejandro Jimenez <alejandro.j.jimenez@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/8-v4-c8663abbb606+3f7-iommu_pages_jgg@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
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