From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
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"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] arch/kmap_atomic: Consolidate duplicate code
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2020 23:25:00 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200427062500.GA32152@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200427011630.GC135929@iweiny-DESK2.sc.intel.com>
On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 06:16:30PM -0700, Ira Weiny wrote:
> > That might require to support
> > kmap_atomic_prot everywhere first, which sounds like a really good
> > idea anyway, and would avoid the need for strange workaround in drm.
>
> Having a kmap_atomic_prot() seems like a good idea. But I'm not exactly sure
> why CONFIG_x86 is being called out specifically in the DRM code?
Probably because it only existed on x86 back then. And drm has a
tendency of working around core problems with hacks instead of doing
the fairly easy fixups.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-27 6:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-26 5:54 [PATCH 0/5] Remove duplicated kmap code ira.weiny
2020-04-26 5:54 ` [PATCH 1/5] arch/kmap: Remove BUG_ON() ira.weiny
2020-04-26 5:54 ` [PATCH 2/5] arch/kmap: Remove redundant arch specific kmaps ira.weiny
2020-04-26 7:17 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-04-26 22:23 ` Ira Weiny
2020-04-26 5:54 ` [PATCH 3/5] arch/kunmap: Remove duplicate kunmap implementations ira.weiny
2020-04-26 5:54 ` [PATCH 4/5] arch/kmap_atomic: Consolidate duplicate code ira.weiny
2020-04-26 7:26 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-04-27 1:16 ` Ira Weiny
2020-04-27 6:25 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2020-04-26 5:54 ` [PATCH 5/5] arch/kunmap_atomic: " ira.weiny
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