From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
To: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Cc: "DRI Development" <dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"KVM list" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>, "Linux MM" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
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"Daniel Vetter" <daniel.vetter@intel.com>,
"Jason Gunthorpe" <jgg@ziepe.ca>,
"Kees Cook" <keescook@chromium.org>,
"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"John Hubbard" <jhubbard@nvidia.com>,
"Jérôme Glisse" <jglisse@redhat.com>, "Jan Kara" <jack@suse.cz>,
"Daniel Vetter" <daniel.vetter@ffwll.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 13/16] /dev/mem: Only set filp->f_mapping
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2020 11:21:17 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPcyv4jJTeH-PNjsXGrn=Ooz7=9rsZLdnFgwJ9xpQ6y14YoDrQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201021085655.1192025-14-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 1:57 AM Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> wrote:
>
> When we care about pagecache maintenance, we need to make sure that
> both f_mapping and i_mapping point at the right mapping.
>
> But for iomem mappings we only care about the virtual/pte side of
> things, so f_mapping is enough. Also setting inode->i_mapping was
> confusing me as a driver maintainer, since in e.g. drivers/gpu we
> don't do that. Per Dan this seems to be copypasta from places which do
> care about pagecache consistency, but not needed. Hence remove it for
> slightly less confusion.
>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
> Cc: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-21 18:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-21 8:56 [PATCH v3 00/16] follow_pfn and other iomap races Daniel Vetter
2020-10-21 8:56 ` [PATCH v3 01/16] drm/exynos: Stop using frame_vector helpers Daniel Vetter
2020-10-21 8:56 ` [PATCH v3 02/16] drm/exynos: Use FOLL_LONGTERM for g2d cmdlists Daniel Vetter
2020-10-21 8:56 ` [PATCH v3 03/16] misc/habana: Stop using frame_vector helpers Daniel Vetter
2020-10-21 8:56 ` [PATCH v3 04/16] misc/habana: Use FOLL_LONGTERM for userptr Daniel Vetter
2020-10-23 9:12 ` Daniel Vetter
2020-10-21 8:56 ` [PATCH v3 05/16] mm/frame-vector: Use FOLL_LONGTERM Daniel Vetter
2020-10-21 8:56 ` [PATCH v3 06/16] media: videobuf2: Move frame_vector into media subsystem Daniel Vetter
2020-10-21 8:56 ` [PATCH v3 07/16] mm: Close race in generic_access_phys Daniel Vetter
2020-10-21 8:56 ` [PATCH v3 08/16] s390/pci: Remove races against pte updates Daniel Vetter
2020-10-21 9:37 ` Niklas Schnelle
2020-10-21 13:56 ` Daniel Vetter
2020-10-21 8:56 ` [PATCH v3 09/16] mm: Add unsafe_follow_pfn Daniel Vetter
2020-10-21 8:56 ` [PATCH v3 10/16] media/videbuf1|2: Mark follow_pfn usage as unsafe Daniel Vetter
2020-10-21 8:56 ` [PATCH v3 11/16] vfio/type1: Mark follow_pfn " Daniel Vetter
2020-10-21 8:56 ` [PATCH v3 12/16] PCI: Obey iomem restrictions for procfs mmap Daniel Vetter
2020-10-21 12:50 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-10-21 14:42 ` Daniel Vetter
2020-10-21 15:13 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-10-21 15:54 ` Daniel Vetter
2020-10-21 16:37 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-10-21 19:24 ` Daniel Vetter
2020-10-21 23:20 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-10-22 7:00 ` Daniel Vetter
2020-10-22 11:43 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-10-22 13:04 ` Daniel Vetter
2020-10-21 8:56 ` [PATCH v3 13/16] /dev/mem: Only set filp->f_mapping Daniel Vetter
2020-10-21 18:21 ` Dan Williams [this message]
2020-10-21 8:56 ` [PATCH v3 14/16] resource: Move devmem revoke code to resource framework Daniel Vetter
2020-10-21 18:59 ` Dan Williams
2020-10-21 19:25 ` Daniel Vetter
2020-10-21 8:56 ` [PATCH v3 15/16] sysfs: Support zapping of binary attr mmaps Daniel Vetter
2020-10-21 8:56 ` [PATCH v3 16/16] PCI: Revoke mappings like devmem Daniel Vetter
2020-10-21 12:51 ` [PATCH v3 00/16] follow_pfn and other iomap races Jason Gunthorpe
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