On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 09:35:56AM +0100, Paul Durrant wrote:
> ...meaning 'device DMA frame number' i.e. a frame number mapped in the IOMMU
> (rather than the MMU) and hence used for DMA address translation.
> 
> This patch is a largely cosmetic change that substitutes the terms 'gfn'
> and 'gaddr' for 'dfn' and 'daddr' in all the places where the frame number
> or address relate to a device rather than the CPU.
> 
> The parts that are not purely cosmetic are:
> 
>  - the introduction of a type-safe declaration of dfn_t and definition of
>    INVALID_DFN to make the substitution of gfn_x(INVALID_GFN) mechanical.
>  - the introduction of __dfn_to_daddr and __daddr_to_dfn (and type-safe
>    variants without the leading __) with some use of the former.
> 
> Subsequent patches will convert code to make use of type-safe DFNs.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant <[email protected]>
> Acked-by: Jan Beulich <[email protected]>
> Reviewed-by: Kevin Tian <[email protected]>

Reviewed-by: Wei Liu <[email protected]>

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