On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 9:09 PM Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 04, 2021 at 08:59:59PM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote: > > > So I think just checking for VM_PFNMAP after the vma is set up should > > be enough to guarantee we'll only have pte_special ptes in there, > > ever. But I'm not sure, this stuff all isn't really documented much > > and the code is sometimes a maze (to me at least). > > Yes, that makes sense. VM_PFNMAP and !VM_MIXEDMAP seems like the right > check after the VMA is populated > > But how do you stuff special pfns into a VMA outside the fault > handler? Many drivers we have don't have dynamic buffer management (kinda overkill for a few framebuffers on a display-only IP block), so the just remap_pfn_range on ->mmap, and don't have a fault handler at all. Or I'm not understanding what you're asking? -Daniel -- Daniel Vetter Software Engineer, Intel Corporation http://blog.ffwll.ch _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
