Re: [PATCH v2 03/11] drm/shmem: drop VM_DONTDUMP

2019-09-23 Thread Steven Price
On 17/09/2019 10:23, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > Not obvious why this is needed. According to Deniel Vetter this is most > likely a historic artefact dating back to the days where drm drivers > exposed hardware registers as mmap'able gem objects, to avoid dumping > touching those registers. shmem gem

[PATCH v2 03/11] drm/shmem: drop VM_DONTDUMP

2019-09-17 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
Not obvious why this is needed. According to Deniel Vetter this is most likely a historic artefact dating back to the days where drm drivers exposed hardware registers as mmap'able gem objects, to avoid dumping touching those registers. shmem gem objects surely don't need that ... Signed-off-by: