Use lo and hi for clear, may run faster than memset.

But it is not a big problem.  Never mind.

Thanks
ZhenHua

On 05/24/2013 08:36 AM, Joe Perches wrote:
On Fri, 2013-05-24 at 08:22 +0800, Li, Zhen-Hua wrote:
There is a structure named context_entry used by intel iommu, and there
are some bit operations on it. Use bit structure may make these operations
easy.
[]
diff --git a/drivers/iommu/intel-iommu.c b/drivers/iommu/intel-iommu.c
[]
@@ -221,55 +221,28 @@ get_context_addr_from_root(struct root_entry *root)
   * 8-23: domain id
   */
  struct context_entry {
-       u64 lo;
-       u64 hi;
+       union {
+               struct {
+                       u64     present:1,
why use struct and union at all?

Why not just:

struct context_entry {
        u64     present:1,
                fpd:1,
                translation_type:2,
                reserved_l:8,
                asr:52;
        u64     aw:3,
                avail:4,
                reserved_h1:1,
                did:16,
                reserved_h2:40;
};

@@ -743,7 +716,8 @@ static void clear_context_table(struct intel_iommu *iommu, 
u8 bus, u8 devfn)
[]
        if (context) {
-               context_clear_entry(&context[devfn]);
+               context[devfn].lo = 0;
+               context[devfn].hi = 0;
                memset(&context[devfn], 0, sizeof(...))



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