On Wed, 23 Aug 2017 12:31:28 +0300 Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > This patch has been floating around for a while now Acked and without > further comments. It is blocking us from merging huge page support to > drm/i915. > > Would you mind merging it, or prodding the right people to get it in? > > Regards, Joonas > > On Mon, 2017-08-21 at 19:34 +0100, Matthew Auld wrote: > > We are planning to use our own tmpfs mnt in i915 in place of the > > shm_mnt, such that we can control the mount options, in particular > > huge=, which we require to support huge-gtt-pages. So rather than roll > > our own version of __shmem_file_setup, it would be preferred if we could > > just give shmem our mnt, and let it do the rest. hm, it's a bit odd. I'm having trouble locating the code which handles huge=within_size (and any other options?). What other approaches were considered? Was it not feasible to add i915-specific mount options to mm/shmem.c (for example?). -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>
