From: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org,
William Kucharski <william.kucharski@oracle.com>,
Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>,
Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
Jaya Kumar <jayakumar.lkml@gmail.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] fb_defio: Remove custom address_space_operations
Date: Sun, 30 May 2021 15:40:44 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2977064f-42d0-7b64-176d-9509c205bfc3@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YLQALv2YENIDh77N@casper.infradead.org>
On 5/30/2021 2:14 PM, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Sun, May 30, 2021 at 12:13:05PM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
>> Hi Matthew,
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 06:55:30PM +0000, Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) wrote:
>>> There's no need to give the page an address_space. Leaving the
>>> page->mapping as NULL will cause the VM to handle set_page_dirty()
>>> the same way that it's handled now, and that was the only reason to
>>> set the address_space in the first place.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
>>> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
>>> Reviewed-by: William Kucharski <william.kucharski@oracle.com>
>>
>> This patch in mainline as commit ccf953d8f3d6 ("fb_defio: Remove custom
>> address_space_operations") causes my Hyper-V based VM to no longer make
>> it to a graphical environment.
>
> Hi Nathan,
>
> Thanks for the report. I sent Daniel a revert patch with a full
> explanation last week, which I assume he'll queue up for a pull soon.
> You can just git revert ccf953d8f3d6 for yourself until that shows up.
> Sorry for the inconvenience.
>
Thank you for the quick response! I will keep an eye out for the patch
while reverting it locally in the meantime.
Cheers,
Nathan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-30 22:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-10 18:55 [PATCH v2] fb_defio: Remove custom address_space_operations Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-03-11 0:46 ` William Kucharski
2021-03-12 14:12 ` Daniel Vetter
[not found] ` <YLPjwUUmHDRjyPpR@Ryzen-9-3900X.localdomain>
2021-05-30 21:14 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-05-30 22:40 ` Nathan Chancellor [this message]
2021-06-01 14:10 ` Daniel Vetter
2021-06-01 14:30 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-06-01 15:39 ` Daniel Vetter
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