> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jan Beulich [mailto:jbeul...@suse.com]
> Sent: Friday, June 12, 2015 6:35 PM
> To: Wu, Feng
> Cc: andrew.coop...@citrix.com; george.dun...@eu.citrix.com; Tian, Kevin;
> Zhang, Yang Z; xen-devel@lists.xen.org; k...@xen.org
> Subject: RE: [RFC v2 07/15] vt-d: Add API to update IRTE when VT-d PI is used
> 
> >>> On 12.06.15 at 11:40, <feng...@intel.com> wrote:
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Jan Beulich [mailto:jbeul...@suse.com]
> >> >>> On 08.05.15 at 11:07, <feng...@intel.com> wrote:
> >> > +static inline void setup_posted_irte(
> >> > +    struct iremap_entry *new_ire, struct pi_desc *pi_desc, uint8_t
> gvec)
> >> > +{
> >> > +    new_ire->post.urg = 0;
> >> > +    new_ire->post.vector = gvec;
> >> > +    new_ire->post.pda_l = (((u64)virt_to_maddr(pi_desc)) >>
> >> > +                           (32 - PDA_LOW_BIT)) &
> PDA_MASK(LOW);
> >> > +    new_ire->post.pda_h = (((u64)virt_to_maddr(pi_desc)) >> 32) &
> >> > +                           PDA_MASK(HIGH);
> >>
> >> Looking at this another time I can't see what the and-ing with
> >> PAD_MASK() is supposed to be good for.
> >
> > I cannot understand this well. Do you mean we don't need and PDA_MASK()
> > here?
> 
> Correct - the bitfield width (where the data gets stored into) already
> enforces the intended truncation afaict.

We may not need PDA_MASK(HIGH), but is PDA_MASK(LOW) really unnecessary here?

Thanks,
Feng

> 
> Jan


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