[Intel-gfx] [PATCHv2 2/3] i915: convert to new mount API

Sergey Senozhatsky sergey.senozhatsky.work at gmail.com
Tue Aug 6 01:20:27 UTC 2019


On (08/05/19 19:12), Al Viro wrote:
[..]
> On Tue, Aug 06, 2019 at 01:03:06AM +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> > tmpfs does not set ->remount_fs() anymore and its users need
> > to be converted to new mount API.
> 
> Could you explain why the devil do you bother with remount at all?

I would redirect this question to i915 developers. As far as I know
i915 performance suffers with huge pages enabled.

> Why not pass the right options when mounting the damn thing?

vfs_kern_mount()? It still requires struct file_system_type, which
we need to get and put.

	-ss


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