[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 0/2] lib/scatterlist: sg_page_iter: support for memory w/o backing pages

Daniel Vetter daniel at ffwll.ch
Tue Mar 26 15:50:20 CET 2013


On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 03:14:17PM +0200, Imre Deak wrote:
> When adding sg_page_iter I haven't thought properly through the use case
> for sg lists w/o backing pages - which is specific to the i915 driver -
> so this patchset adds support for this.
> 
> It applies on the i915 tree [1], where the iterator is in use already.
> 
> [1] git://people.freedesktop.org/~danvet/drm-intel [nightly branch]

i915 patches are already included in linux-next, so should apply on top of
that, too. So can this go in through -mm for 3.10 or should I slurp it in
through drm-intel trees (once it passes review)? I'd like to ditch the
dummy page hack we're currently using (i.e. patch 2).
-Daniel
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