linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHv2 2/3] i915: convert to new mount API

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Date:   Thu, 8 Aug 2019 02:21:35 +0100
From:   Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
To:     Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
Cc:     Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>,
        Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...ux.intel.com>,
        Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@...el.com>,
        Chris Wilson <chris@...is-wilson.co.uk>,
        David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>,
        intel-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 2/3] i915: convert to new mount API

On Tue, Aug 06, 2019 at 12:50:10AM -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote:

> that mapping must have been decided previously).  In Google we do use
> fcntls F_HUGEPAGE and F_NOHUGEPAGE to override on a per-file basis -
> one day I'll get to upstreaming those.

That'd be nice - we could kill the i915 wierd private shmem instance,
along with some kludges in mm/shmem.c.