Re: [PATCH v2 07/11] drm/ttm: drop VM_DONTDUMP

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On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 11:22:35AM +0000, Koenig, Christian wrote:
> Am 17.09.19 um 11:24 schrieb Gerd Hoffmann:
> > Not obvious why this is needed.  According to Deniel Vetter this is most
> > likely a historic artefact dating back to the days where drm drivers
> > exposed hardware registers as mmap'able gem objects, to avoid dumping
> > touching those registers.
> 
> Clearly a NAK.
> 
> We still have that and really don't want to try dumping any CPU 
> inaccessible VRAM content even if it is mapped into the address space 
> somewhere.

Thanks for the clarification, I'll drop the patch.

cheers,
  Gerd

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