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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead•org>
To: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel•com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead•org>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel•crashing.org>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux•intel.com>,
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	"James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership•com>,
	Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail•com>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba•org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor•com>,
	sparclinux@vger•kernel.org,
	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel•com>,
	Helge Deller <deller@gmx•de>,
	x86@kernel•org, linux-csky@vger•kernel.org,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead•org>,
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	Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel•org>,
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	Chris Zankel <chris@zankel•net>,
	Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha•franken.de>,
	linux-parisc@vger•kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation•org>,
	linuxppc-dev@lists•ozlabs.org,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft•net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] arch/kmap_atomic: Consolidate duplicate code
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2020 23:25:00 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200427062500.GA32152@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200427011630.GC135929@iweiny-DESK2.sc.intel.com>

On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 06:16:30PM -0700, Ira Weiny wrote:
> > That might require to support
> > kmap_atomic_prot everywhere first, which sounds like a really good
> > idea anyway, and would avoid the need for strange workaround in drm.
> 
> Having a kmap_atomic_prot() seems like a good idea.  But I'm not exactly sure
> why CONFIG_x86 is being called out specifically in the DRM code?

Probably because it only existed on x86 back then.  And drm has a
tendency of working around core problems with hacks instead of doing
the fairly easy fixups.

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-04-27  6:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-26  5:54 [PATCH 0/5] Remove duplicated kmap code ira.weiny
2020-04-26  5:54 ` [PATCH 1/5] arch/kmap: Remove BUG_ON() ira.weiny
2020-04-26  5:54 ` [PATCH 2/5] arch/kmap: Remove redundant arch specific kmaps ira.weiny
2020-04-26  7:17   ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-04-26 22:23     ` Ira Weiny
2020-04-26  5:54 ` [PATCH 3/5] arch/kunmap: Remove duplicate kunmap implementations ira.weiny
2020-04-26  5:54 ` [PATCH 4/5] arch/kmap_atomic: Consolidate duplicate code ira.weiny
2020-04-26  7:26   ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-04-27  1:16     ` Ira Weiny
2020-04-27  6:25       ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2020-04-26  5:54 ` [PATCH 5/5] arch/kunmap_atomic: " ira.weiny

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