[PATCH v2] drm: remove unnecessary fault wrappers

Daniel Vetter daniel at ffwll.ch
Tue Jan 31 08:40:54 UTC 2017


On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 03:14:38PM -0700, Ross Zwisler wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 03:09:39PM -0700, Ross Zwisler wrote:
> 
> > This patch applies cleanly to mmots/master, which is currently at
> > v4.10-rc5-mmots-2017-01-26-15-49.
> 
> Which may not be what you want...  The reason I was looking at this code was
> because it was recently changed by Dave Jiang to remove the 'vma' argument
> from all the fault handlers.
> 
> So, would you rather:
> 
> 1) Take it through the -mm tree to avoid merge conflicts, in which case I'll
> add akpm to the thread.
> 
> 2) Take it through your tree & deal with merge conflicts later, in which case
> I can rebase on your tree or on v4.10-rc6.
> 
> 3) Just drop it and keep the extra 20 lines or whatever that the complier will
> just optimize out.
> 
> I'm fine with any of the above.

drm_vm.c is legacy horror shows, we're not going to touch in in the drm
tree (except for other trivial clenaups). So perfectly fine to merge it
all through -mm.

Acked-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch>
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Daniel Vetter
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