Re: [PATCH 3/6] drm/i915: use vmap in shmem_pin_map

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 08:11:57PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> This is awkward.  I'd like it if we had a vfree() variant which called
> put_page() instead of __free_pages().  I'd like it even more if we
> used release_pages() instead of our own loop that called put_page().

Note that we don't need a new vfree variant, we can do this manually if
we want, take a look at kernel/dma/remap.c.  But I thought this code
intentionally doesn't want to do that to avoid locking in the memory
for the pages array.  Maybe the i915 maintainers can clarify.