Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 1/9] mm: Introduce new vm_insert_range and vm_insert_range_buggy API

From: Heiko Stuebner <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2019 13:06:49 +0100

Am Donnerstag, 31. Januar 2019, 04:08:12 CET schrieb Souptick Joarder:
> Previouly drivers have their own way of mapping range of
> kernel pages/memory into user vma and this was done by
> invoking vm_insert_page() within a loop.
> 
> As this pattern is common across different drivers, it can
> be generalized by creating new functions and use it across
> the drivers.
> 
> vm_insert_range() is the API which could be used to mapped
> kernel memory/pages in drivers which has considered vm_pgoff
> 
> vm_insert_range_buggy() is the API which could be used to map
> range of kernel memory/pages in drivers which has not considered
> vm_pgoff. vm_pgoff is passed default as 0 for those drivers.
> 
> We _could_ then at a later "fix" these drivers which are using
> vm_insert_range_buggy() to behave according to the normal vm_pgoff
> offsetting simply by removing the _buggy suffix on the function
> name and if that causes regressions, it gives us an easy way to revert.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Souptick Joarder <[email-masked]>
> Suggested-by: Russell King <[email-masked]>
> Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox <[email-masked]>

hmm, I'm missing a changelog here between v1 and v2.
Nevertheless I managed to test v1 on Rockchip hardware
and display is still working, including talking to Lima via prime.

So if there aren't any big changes for v2, on Rockchip
Tested-by: Heiko Stuebner <[email-masked]>

Heiko

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