On Mon 25-05-15 13:37:56, Hans Verkuil wrote: > Hi Jan, > > On 05/13/2015 03:08 PM, Jan Kara wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm sending the fifth version of my patch series to abstract vma handling > > from the various media drivers. The patches got some review from mm people and > > testing from device driver guys so unless someone objects, patches will be > > queued in media tree for the next merge window. > > What is the current status? I saw one comment for patch 9, so I assume it is not > quite ready yet. > > Let me know when you think it is time to merge. There was a minor comment to the exynos patch - I've sent updated version of that patch as a reply to the comment. Do you want me to resend the whole series? Otherwise I think you can just pick up the patches and merge them. Thanks! Honza > > After this patch set drivers have to know much less details about vmas, their > > types, and locking. Also quite some code is removed from them. As a bonus > > drivers get automatically VM_FAULT_RETRY handling. The primary motivation for > > this series is to remove knowledge about mmap_sem locking from as many places a > > possible so that we can change it with reasonable effort. > > > > The core of the series is the new helper get_vaddr_frames() which is given a > > virtual address and it fills in PFNs / struct page pointers (depending on VMA > > type) into the provided array. If PFNs correspond to normal pages it also grabs > > references to these pages. The difference from get_user_pages() is that this > > function can also deal with pfnmap, and io mappings which is what the media > > drivers need. > > > > I have tested the patches with vivid driver so at least vb2 code got some > > exposure. Conversion of other drivers was just compile-tested (for x86 so e.g. > > exynos driver which is only for Samsung platform is completely untested). > > > > Honza > > Changes since v4: > > * Minor cleanups and fixes pointed out by Mel and Vlasta > > * Added Acked-by tags > > > > Changes since v3: > > * Added include <linux/vmalloc.h> into mm/gup.c as it's needed for some archs > > * Fixed error path for exynos driver > > > > Changes since v2: > > * Renamed functions and structures as Mel suggested > > * Other minor changes suggested by Mel > > * Rebased on top of 4.1-rc2 > > * Changed functions to get pointer to array of pages / pfns to perform > > conversion if necessary. This fixes possible issue in the omap I may have > > introduced in v2 and generally makes the API less errorprone. > > -- > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in > > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > > -- Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> SUSE Labs, CR -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
