[PATCH 0/9] Use vm_insert_range

Souptick Joarder jrdr.linux at gmail.com
Wed Nov 21 19:56:51 UTC 2018


On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 1:08 AM Boris Ostrovsky
<boris.ostrovsky at oracle.com> wrote:
>
> On 11/21/18 1:24 AM, Souptick Joarder wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 9:09 PM Souptick Joarder <jrdr.linux at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Previouly drivers have their own way of mapping range of
> >> kernel pages/memory into user vma and this was done by
> >> invoking vm_insert_page() within a loop.
> >>
> >> As this pattern is common across different drivers, it can
> >> be generalized by creating a new function and use it across
> >> the drivers.
> >>
> >> vm_insert_range is the new API which will be used to map a
> >> range of kernel memory/pages to user vma.
> >>
> >> All the applicable places are converted to use new vm_insert_range
> >> in this patch series.
> >>
> >> Souptick Joarder (9):
> >>   mm: Introduce new vm_insert_range API
> >>   arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c: Convert to use vm_insert_range
> >>   drivers/firewire/core-iso.c: Convert to use vm_insert_range
> >>   drm/rockchip/rockchip_drm_gem.c: Convert to use vm_insert_range
> >>   drm/xen/xen_drm_front_gem.c: Convert to use vm_insert_range
> >>   iommu/dma-iommu.c: Convert to use vm_insert_range
> >>   videobuf2/videobuf2-dma-sg.c: Convert to use vm_insert_range
> >>   xen/gntdev.c: Convert to use vm_insert_range
> >>   xen/privcmd-buf.c: Convert to use vm_insert_range
> > Any further comment on driver changes ?
>
> Xen drivers (the last two patches) look fine to me.

Thanks, can I considered this as Reviewed-by ?

>
> -boris
>
>
> >>  arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c                         | 21 ++++++-----------
> >>  drivers/firewire/core-iso.c                       | 15 ++----------
> >>  drivers/gpu/drm/rockchip/rockchip_drm_gem.c       | 20 ++--------------
> >>  drivers/gpu/drm/xen/xen_drm_front_gem.c           | 20 +++++-----------
> >>  drivers/iommu/dma-iommu.c                         | 12 ++--------
> >>  drivers/media/common/videobuf2/videobuf2-dma-sg.c | 23 ++++++-------------
> >>  drivers/xen/gntdev.c                              | 11 ++++-----
> >>  drivers/xen/privcmd-buf.c                         |  8 ++-----
> >>  include/linux/mm_types.h                          |  3 +++
> >>  mm/memory.c                                       | 28 +++++++++++++++++++++++
> >>  mm/nommu.c                                        |  7 ++++++
> >>  11 files changed, 70 insertions(+), 98 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> --
> >> 1.9.1
> >>
>


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