Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] amd iommu: disable iommu emulation on non-iommu systems

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 03.02.12 at 15:09, Wei Wang <wei.wang2@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 02/01/2012 04:58 PM, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> ... Further, are the extra checks needed at all
>> (i.e. wouldn't domain_iommu() return NULL in all of these cases
>> anyway due to the same checks being added to guest_iommu_init())?
>> If so, the checks you add to guest_iommu_destroy() are pointless
>> too.
> 
> It is just to make sure those functions are not called by an unexpected 
> code path since it is non-static. But I can remove it if you prefer that.

Keir already committed the patch, but converting things like this
(where the impossible is being checked) to assertions is preferred
imo (meaning less redundant, possibly dead code in production
builds), so a follow-up patch would be appreciated.

Jan


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