Re: remove alloc_vm_area v2

2020-09-30 Thread Daniel Vetter
On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 4:48 PM Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 03:43:30PM +0300, Joonas Lahtinen wrote: > > Hmm, those are both committed after our last -next pull request, so they > > would normally only target next merge window. drm-next closes the merge > > window around

Re: remove alloc_vm_area v2

2020-09-30 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 03:43:30PM +0300, Joonas Lahtinen wrote: > Hmm, those are both committed after our last -next pull request, so they > would normally only target next merge window. drm-next closes the merge > window around -rc5 already. > > But, in this specific case those are both Fixes:

Re: remove alloc_vm_area v2

2020-09-29 Thread Joonas Lahtinen
Quoting Christoph Hellwig (2020-09-28 15:37:41) > On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 01:13:38PM +0300, Joonas Lahtinen wrote: > > I think we have a gap that after splitting the drm-intel-next pull requests > > into > > two the drm-intel/for-linux-next branch is now missing material from > >

Re: remove alloc_vm_area v2

2020-09-28 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 01:13:38PM +0300, Joonas Lahtinen wrote: > I think we have a gap that after splitting the drm-intel-next pull requests > into > two the drm-intel/for-linux-next branch is now missing material from > drm-intel/drm-intel-gt-next. > > I think a simple course of action might

Re: remove alloc_vm_area v2

2020-09-28 Thread Joonas Lahtinen
+ Dave and Daniel + Stephen Quoting Christoph Hellwig (2020-09-26 09:29:59) > On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 07:43:49PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Thu, 24 Sep 2020 15:58:42 +0200 Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > > > this series removes alloc_vm_area, which was left over from the big > > >

Re: remove alloc_vm_area v2

2020-09-26 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 07:43:49PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 24 Sep 2020 15:58:42 +0200 Christoph Hellwig 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

Re: remove alloc_vm_area v2

2020-09-25 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 24 Sep 2020 15:58:42 +0200 Christoph Hellwig 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

remove alloc_vm_area v2

2020-09-24 Thread Christoph Hellwig
Hi Andrew, 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