Re: [PATCH v3 16/19] arch/sh: Implement with generic helpers

John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2023-04-17T14:13:49Z

Hi Thomas!

On Mon, 2023-04-17 at 16:06 +0200, Thomas Zimmermann wrote:
> Hi
>
> Am 17.04.23 um 15:02 schrieb John Paul Adrian Glaubitz:
> > Hi Thomas!
> >
> > On Mon, 2023-04-17 at 14:56 +0200, Thomas Zimmermann wrote:
> > > Replace the architecture's fbdev helpers with the generic
> > > ones from <asm-generic/fb.h>. No functional changes.
> > >
> > > v2:
> > > * use default implementation for fb_pgprotect() (Arnd)
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
> > > Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
> > > Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
> > > Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>
> > > ---
> > > arch/sh/include/asm/fb.h | 15 +--------------
> > > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 14 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/arch/sh/include/asm/fb.h b/arch/sh/include/asm/fb.h
> > > index 9a0bca2686fd..19df13ee9ca7 100644
> > > --- a/arch/sh/include/asm/fb.h
> > > +++ b/arch/sh/include/asm/fb.h
> > > @@ -2,19 +2,6 @@
> > > #ifndef _ASM_FB_H_
> > > #define _ASM_FB_H_
> > >
> > > -#include <linux/fb.h>
> > > -#include <linux/fs.h>
> > > -#include <asm/page.h>
> > > -
> > > -static inline void fb_pgprotect(struct file *file, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> > > - unsigned long off)
> > > -{
> > > - vma->vm_page_prot = pgprot_writecombine(vma->vm_page_prot);
> > > -}
> >
> > Looking at the macro in asm-generic/fb.h, fb_pgprotect() is being replaced with
> > a no-op function. Is that intentional? Can you briefly explain the background
> > for this change?
>
> Patch 01 of this patchset changes the generic fb_pgprotect() to set
> pgprot_writecombine(). So on SH, there should be no change at all.
>

Ah, I missed that, thanks for the explanation. Let me check and Ack your patch
then. I assume you will be taking this patch as part of the whole series through
your own tree?

Thanks,
Adrian

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