On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 6:04 PM Heiko Stuebner <heiko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Am Donnerstag, 31. Januar 2019, 13:31:52 CET schrieb Souptick Joarder: > > On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 5:37 PM Heiko Stuebner <heiko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > 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 <jrdr.linux@xxxxxxxxx> > > > > Suggested-by: Russell King <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > > > 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 <heiko@xxxxxxxxx> > > > > Change log is available in [0/9]. > > Patch [1/9] & [4/9] have no changes between v1 -> v2. > > I never seem to get your cover-letters, so didn't see that, sorry. I added you in sender list for all cover-letters but it didn't reach your inbox :-) Thanks for reviewing and validating the patch. > > But great that there weren't changes then :-) > > Heiko > > _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
