On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 07:43:49PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 24 Sep 2020 15:58:42 +0200 Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> wrote: > > > this series removes alloc_vm_area, which was left over from the big > > vmalloc interface rework. It is a rather arkane interface, basicaly > > the equivalent of get_vm_area + actually faulting in all PTEs in > > the allocated area. It was originally addeds for Xen (which isn't > > modular to start with), and then grew users in zsmalloc and i915 > > which seems to mostly qualify as abuses of the interface, especially > > for i915 as a random driver should not set up PTE bits directly. > > > > Note that the i915 patches apply to the drm-tip branch of the drm-tip > > tree, as that tree has recent conflicting commits in the same area. > > Is the drm-tip material in linux-next yet? I'm still seeing a non-trivial > reject in there at present. I assumed it was, but the reject imply that they aren't. Tvrtko, do you know the details?
