[PATCH v2 07/11] drm/ttm: drop VM_DONTDUMP

Gerd Hoffmann kraxel at redhat.com
Tue Sep 17 09:24:00 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.

Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel at redhat.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_bo_vm.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_bo_vm.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_bo_vm.c
index 7c0e85c10e0e..4dc77a66aaf6 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_bo_vm.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_bo_vm.c
@@ -445,7 +445,7 @@ void ttm_bo_mmap_vma_setup(struct ttm_buffer_object *bo, struct vm_area_struct *
 	 * VM_MIXEDMAP on all mappings. See freedesktop.org bug #75719
 	 */
 	vma->vm_flags |= VM_MIXEDMAP;
-	vma->vm_flags |= VM_IO | VM_DONTEXPAND | VM_DONTDUMP;
+	vma->vm_flags |= VM_IO | VM_DONTEXPAND;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(ttm_bo_mmap_vma_setup);
 
-- 
2.18.1



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