TTM or vmwgfx tree? Re: [PATCH v5 0/2] mm, drm/ttm: Fix pte insertion with customized protection

Christian König christian.koenig at amd.com
Wed Jan 15 12:54:58 UTC 2020


Am 15.01.20 um 13:45 schrieb Thomas Hellström (VMware):
> Hi Christian,
>
> On 1/15/20 1:41 PM, Thomas Hellström (VMware) wrote:
>> From: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom at vmware.com>
>>
>> The drm/ttm module is using a modified on-stack copy of the
>> struct vm_area_struct to be able to set a page protection with 
>> customized
>> caching. Fix that by adding a vmf_insert_mixed_prot() function similar
>> to the existing vmf_insert_pfn_prot() for use with drm/ttm.
>>
>> Patches are acked to be merged through a drm tree.
>
> This small patchset should be ready to be merged now, with acks from 
> Andrew.
>
> Do you want to take it through the ttm tree, or should I ask Dave / 
> Daniel to pull it separately?
>
> Note that similar to the vmwgfx coherent patches, Linus has indicated 
> that he wants separate pull requests for stuff like this that touches mm.

Better ask Dave in this case or merge through drm-misc-next. The later 
is where I push all those little cross driver cleanup patches recently 
and that seems to work fine.

Regards,
Christian.

>
> Thanks,
>
> Thomas
>
>



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