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Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] arch/kmap_atomic: Consolidate duplicate code
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch () infradead ! org>
Date: 2020-04-27 6:25:00
Message-ID: 20200427062500.GA32152 () infradead ! org
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On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 06:16:30PM -0700, Ira Weiny wrote:
> > That might require to support
> > kmap_atomic_prot everywhere first, which sounds like a really good
> > idea anyway, and would avoid the need for strange workaround in drm.
>
> Having a kmap_atomic_prot() seems like a good idea. But I'm not exactly sure
> why CONFIG_x86 is being called out specifically in the DRM code?
Probably because it only existed on x86 back then. And drm has a
tendency of working around core problems with hacks instead of doing
the fairly easy fixups.
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