Re: [PATCH v2] gpu: drm: armada: Adding new typedef vm_fault_t

From: Souptick Joarder
Date: Tue Jun 19 2018 - 01:12:22 EST


On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 10:46 AM, Souptick Joarder <jrdr.linux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 3:09 PM, Souptick Joarder <jrdr.linux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 10:05 AM, Souptick Joarder <jrdr.linux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 2:52 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux
>>> <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 08:34:48PM +0530, Souptick Joarder wrote:
>>>>> Use new return type vm_fault_t for fault handler in
>>>>> struct vm_operations_struct. For now, this is just
>>>>> documenting that the function returns a VM_FAULT
>>>>> value rather than an errno. Once all instances are
>>>>> converted, vm_fault_t will become a distinct type.
>>>>>
>>>>> commit 1c8f422059ae ("mm: change return type to vm_fault_t")
>>>>>
>>>>> Previously vm_insert_pfn() returns err which driver
>>>>> mapped into VM_FAULT_* type. The new function
>>>>> vmf_insert_pfn() will replace this inefficiency by
>>>>> returning VM_FAULT_* type.
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Souptick Joarder <jrdr.linux@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>>> Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>
>>>> Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> If no further comment, we would like to get this patch in queue
>>> for 4.18.
>>
>> We would like to get this patch in queue
>> for 4.18.
>
> We would like to get this patch in 4.18.

Russell, This patch is not merged in 4.18-rc-1.