Re: [PATCH 2/8] drm/shmem: switch shmem helper to &drm_gem_object_funcs.mmap

From: Gerd Hoffmann
Date: Tue Sep 17 2019 - 04:14:52 EST


Hi,

> > - /* VM_PFNMAP was set by drm_gem_mmap() */
> > - vma->vm_flags &= ~VM_PFNMAP;
> > - vma->vm_flags |= VM_MIXEDMAP;
> > + vma->vm_flags |= (VM_MIXEDMAP|VM_DONTEXPAND);
>
> I'm finding this a bit hard to follow - but I think here we've lost
> VM_IO and VM_DONTDUMP which used to be set by drm_gem_mmap().

Yep. Intentional, but I think I better split that off to a separate
patch with a commit message explaining things.

> Also it looks like nothing is fiddling vma->vm_page_prot anymore.

Oops, that one was not intentional. Will fix.

cheers,
Gerd