[PATCH 09/19] drm/via: set FOLL_PIN via pin_user_pages_fast()

Daniel Vetter daniel at ffwll.ch
Tue Nov 5 20:49:36 AEDT 2019


On Mon, Nov 04, 2019 at 11:20:38AM -0800, John Hubbard wrote:
> On 11/4/19 10:10 AM, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 04:36:28PM -0700, Ira Weiny wrote:
> >> On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 03:49:20PM -0700, John Hubbard wrote:
> >>> Convert drm/via to use the new pin_user_pages_fast() call, which sets
> >>> FOLL_PIN. Setting FOLL_PIN is now required for code that requires
> >>> tracking of pinned pages, and therefore for any code that calls
> >>> put_user_page().
> >>>
> >>
> >> Reviewed-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny at intel.com>
> > 
> > No one's touching the via driver anymore, so feel free to merge this
> > through whatever tree suits best (aka I'll drop this on the floor and
> > forget about it now).
> > 
> > Acked-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch>
> > 
> 
> OK, great. Yes, in fact, I'm hoping Andrew can just push the whole series
> in through the mm tree, because that would allow it to be done in one 
> shot, in 5.5

btw is there more? We should have a bunch more userptr stuff in various
drivers, so was really surprised that drm/via is the only thing in your
series.
-Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
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