[PATCH v4 03/11] drm/shmem: drop VM_DONTDUMP

Gerd Hoffmann kraxel at redhat.com
Wed Oct 16 11:51:55 UTC 2019


Not obvious why this is needed.  According to Deniel Vetter this is most
likely a historic artefact dating back to the days where drm drivers
exposed hardware registers as mmap'able gem objects, to avoid dumping
touching those registers.  shmem gem objects surely don't need that ...

Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel at redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Steven Price <steven.price at arm.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem_shmem_helper.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem_shmem_helper.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem_shmem_helper.c
index a9a586630517..6efedab15016 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem_shmem_helper.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem_shmem_helper.c
@@ -536,7 +536,7 @@ int drm_gem_shmem_mmap(struct drm_gem_object *obj, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
 		return ret;
 	}
 
-	vma->vm_flags |= VM_IO | VM_MIXEDMAP | VM_DONTEXPAND | VM_DONTDUMP;
+	vma->vm_flags |= VM_IO | VM_MIXEDMAP | VM_DONTEXPAND;
 	vma->vm_page_prot = pgprot_writecombine(vm_get_page_prot(vma->vm_flags));
 	vma->vm_page_prot = pgprot_decrypted(vma->vm_page_prot);
 	vma->vm_ops = &drm_gem_shmem_vm_ops;
-- 
2.18.1



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