[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 01/21] mm/shmem: introduce shmem_file_setup_with_mnt

Joonas Lahtinen joonas.lahtinen at linux.intel.com
Tue Aug 8 12:04:49 UTC 2017


Hi Hugh,

Could we get this patch merged? Or would you prefer us to merge through drm-tip?

For what it's worth, this is:

Reviewed-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen at linux.intel.com>

Regards, Joonas

On pe, 2017-07-28 at 16:12 +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 08:21:13PM +0100, Matthew Auld wrote:
> > 
> > We are planning to use our own tmpfs mnt in i915 in place of the
> > shm_mnt, such that we can control the mount options, in particular
> > huge=, which we require to support huge-gtt-pages. So rather than roll
> > our own version of __shmem_file_setup, it would be preferred if we could
> > just give shmem our mnt, and let it do the rest.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Matthew Auld <matthew.auld at intel.com>
> > Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen at linux.intel.com>
> > Cc: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
> > Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen at intel.com>
> > Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill at shutemov.name>
> > Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd at google.com>
> > Cc: linux-mm at kvack.org
> 
> Looks okay to me.
> 
> Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov at linux.intel.com>
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Joonas Lahtinen
Open Source Technology Center
Intel Corporation


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