linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/6] drm/i915: use vmap in shmem_pin

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Date:   Tue, 22 Sep 2020 08:22:49 +0200
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>,
        Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>,
        Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@...nel.org>,
        Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...ux.intel.com>,
        Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@...el.com>,
        Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
        Nitin Gupta <ngupta@...are.org>, x86@...nel.org,
        xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        intel-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] drm/i915: use vmap in shmem_pin_map

On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 08:11:57PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> This is awkward.  I'd like it if we had a vfree() variant which called
> put_page() instead of __free_pages().  I'd like it even more if we
> used release_pages() instead of our own loop that called put_page().

Note that we don't need a new vfree variant, we can do this manually if
we want, take a look at kernel/dma/remap.c.  But I thought this code
intentionally doesn't want to do that to avoid locking in the memory
for the pages array.  Maybe the i915 maintainers can clarify.