On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 04:10:16PM -0600, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote: > Sometimes it's not okay to use SIMD registers, the conditions for which > have changed subtly from kernel release to kernel release. Usually the > pattern is to check for may_use_simd() and then fallback to using > something slower in the unlikely case SIMD registers aren't available. > So, this patch fixes up i915's accelerated memcpy routines to fallback > to boring memcpy if may_use_simd() is false. Err, why does i915 implements its own uncached memcpy instead of relying on core functionality to start with?
