From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>,
Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org,
x86@kernel.org, Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>,
Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>,
Matthew Auld <matthew.auld@intel.com>,
xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org,
Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>,
Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Subject: Re: [Intel-gfx] remove alloc_vm_area v2
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2020 19:43:49 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200925194349.d0ee9dbedb2ec48f0bfcd2ec@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200924135853.875294-1-hch@lst.de>
On Thu, 24 Sep 2020 15:58:42 +0200 Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> wrote:
> this series removes alloc_vm_area, which was left over from the big
> vmalloc interface rework. It is a rather arkane interface, basicaly
> the equivalent of get_vm_area + actually faulting in all PTEs in
> the allocated area. It was originally addeds for Xen (which isn't
> modular to start with), and then grew users in zsmalloc and i915
> which seems to mostly qualify as abuses of the interface, especially
> for i915 as a random driver should not set up PTE bits directly.
>
> Note that the i915 patches apply to the drm-tip branch of the drm-tip
> tree, as that tree has recent conflicting commits in the same area.
Is the drm-tip material in linux-next yet? I'm still seeing a non-trivial
reject in there at present.
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Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-24 13:58 [Intel-gfx] remove alloc_vm_area v2 Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-24 13:58 ` [Intel-gfx] [PATCH 01/11] mm: update the documentation for vfree Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-24 13:58 ` [Intel-gfx] [PATCH 02/11] mm: add a VM_MAP_PUT_PAGES flag for vmap Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-24 13:58 ` [Intel-gfx] [PATCH 03/11] mm: add a vmap_pfn function Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-24 13:58 ` [Intel-gfx] [PATCH 04/11] mm: allow a NULL fn callback in apply_to_page_range Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-24 13:58 ` [Intel-gfx] [PATCH 05/11] zsmalloc: switch from alloc_vm_area to get_vm_area Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-24 13:58 ` [Intel-gfx] [PATCH 06/11] drm/i915: use vmap in shmem_pin_map Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-25 13:05 ` Tvrtko Ursulin
2020-09-24 13:58 ` [Intel-gfx] [PATCH 07/11] drm/i915: stop using kmap in i915_gem_object_map Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-25 13:01 ` Tvrtko Ursulin
2020-09-24 13:58 ` [Intel-gfx] [PATCH 08/11] drm/i915: use vmap " Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-25 13:11 ` Tvrtko Ursulin
2020-09-25 14:08 ` Matthew Auld
2020-09-25 16:02 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-25 16:09 ` [Intel-gfx] [PATCH 08/11, fixed] " Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-24 13:58 ` [Intel-gfx] [PATCH 09/11] xen/xenbus: use apply_to_page_range directly in xenbus_map_ring_pv Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-24 23:42 ` boris.ostrovsky
2020-09-24 13:58 ` [Intel-gfx] [PATCH 10/11] x86/xen: open code alloc_vm_area in arch_gnttab_valloc Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-24 23:43 ` boris.ostrovsky
2020-09-24 13:58 ` [Intel-gfx] [PATCH 11/11] mm: remove alloc_vm_area Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-24 15:09 ` [Intel-gfx] ✗ Fi.CI.CHECKPATCH: warning for series starting with [01/11] mm: update the documentation for vfree Patchwork
2020-09-24 15:34 ` [Intel-gfx] ✓ Fi.CI.BAT: success " Patchwork
2020-09-24 20:44 ` [Intel-gfx] ✓ Fi.CI.IGT: " Patchwork
2020-09-25 16:50 ` [Intel-gfx] ✓ Fi.CI.BAT: success for series starting with [01/11] mm: update the documentation for vfree (rev2) Patchwork
2020-09-26 0:08 ` [Intel-gfx] ✓ Fi.CI.IGT: " Patchwork
2020-09-26 2:43 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2020-09-26 6:29 ` [Intel-gfx] remove alloc_vm_area v2 Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-28 10:13 ` Joonas Lahtinen
2020-09-28 12:37 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-29 12:43 ` Joonas Lahtinen
2020-09-30 14:48 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-30 18:37 ` Daniel Vetter
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