Re: [PATCH v2] fb_defio: Remove custom address_space_operations

Nathan Chancellor
2021-05-30T22:40:48Z

On 5/30/2021 2:14 PM, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Sun, May 30, 2021 at 12:13:05PM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
>> Hi Matthew,
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 06:55:30PM +0000, Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) wrote:
>>> There's no need to give the page an address_space. Leaving the
>>> page->mapping as NULL will cause the VM to handle set_page_dirty()
>>> the same way that it's handled now, and that was the only reason to
>>> set the address_space in the first place.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
>>> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
>>> Reviewed-by: William Kucharski <william.kucharski@oracle.com>
>>
>> This patch in mainline as commit ccf953d8f3d6 ("fb_defio: Remove custom
>> address_space_operations") causes my Hyper-V based VM to no longer make
>> it to a graphical environment.
>
> Hi Nathan,
>
> Thanks for the report. I sent Daniel a revert patch with a full
> explanation last week, which I assume he'll queue up for a pull soon.
> You can just git revert ccf953d8f3d6 for yourself until that shows up.
> Sorry for the inconvenience.
>

Thank you for the quick response! I will keep an eye out for the patch
while reverting it locally in the meantime.

Cheers,
Nathan