Re: [PATCH 01/21] mm/shmem: introduce shmem_file_setup_with_mnt

[Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>]

Ping on the core MM folks.

We'd need either an ack or nack on this one to proceed with the huge
page work for i915.

Regards, Joonas

On ti, 2017-07-25 at 20:21 +0100, Matthew Auld wrote:
> We are planning to use our own tmpfs mnt in i915 in place of the
> shm_mnt, such that we can control the mount options, in particular
> huge=, which we require to support huge-gtt-pages. So rather than roll
> our own version of __shmem_file_setup, it would be preferred if we could
> just give shmem our mnt, and let it do the rest.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Auld <matthew.auld@intel.com>
> Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
> Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
> ---
>  include/linux/shmem_fs.h |  2 ++
>  mm/shmem.c               | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++--------
>  2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

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-- 
Joonas Lahtinen
Open Source Technology Center
Intel Corporation

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