On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 1:57 AM Daniel Vetter <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> When we care about pagecache maintenance, we need to make sure that
> both f_mapping and i_mapping point at the right mapping.
>
> But for iomem mappings we only care about the virtual/pte side of
> things, so f_mapping is enough. Also setting inode->i_mapping was
> confusing me as a driver maintainer, since in e.g. drivers/gpu we
> don't do that. Per Dan this seems to be copypasta from places which do
> care about pagecache consistency, but not needed. Hence remove it for
> slightly less confusion.
>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <[email protected]>
> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <[email protected]>
> Cc: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
> Cc: Dan Williams <[email protected]>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
> Cc: John Hubbard <[email protected]>
> Cc: Jérôme Glisse <[email protected]>
> Cc: Jan Kara <[email protected]>
> Cc: Dan Williams <[email protected]>

Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <[email protected]>

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