[PATCH 2/4] drm/prime: document that use the page array is deprecated

["Christian König" <ckoenig.leichtzumerken@gmail.com>]

We have reoccurring requests on this so better document that
this approach doesn't work and dma_buf_mmap() needs to be used instead.

Signed-off-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_prime.c | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_prime.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_prime.c
index 4910c446db83..16fa2bfc271e 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_prime.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_prime.c
@@ -956,7 +956,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_gem_prime_import);
 /**
  * drm_prime_sg_to_page_addr_arrays - convert an sg table into a page array
  * @sgt: scatter-gather table to convert
- * @pages: optional array of page pointers to store the page array in
+ * @pages: deprecated array of page pointers to store the page array in
  * @addrs: optional array to store the dma bus address of each page
  * @max_entries: size of both the passed-in arrays
  *
@@ -965,6 +965,11 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_gem_prime_import);
  *
  * Drivers can use this in their &drm_driver.gem_prime_import_sg_table
  * implementation.
+ *
+ * Specifying the pages array is deprecated and strongly discouraged for new
+ * drivers. The pages array is only useful for page faults and those can
+ * corrupt fields in the struct page if they are not handled by the exporting
+ * driver.
  */
 int drm_prime_sg_to_page_addr_arrays(struct sg_table *sgt, struct page **pages,
 				     dma_addr_t *addrs, int max_entries)
-- 
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