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Store the per-page state for fbdev's deferred I/O in struct fb_deferred_io_pageref. Maintain a list of pagerefs for the pages that have to be written back to video memory. Update all affected drivers. As with pages before, fbdev acquires a pageref when an mmaped page of the framebuffer is being written to. It holds the pageref in a list of all currently written pagerefs until it flushes the written pages to video memory. Writeback occurs periodically. After writeback fbdev releases all pagerefs and builds up a new dirty list until the next writeback occurs. Using pagerefs has a number of benefits. For pages of the framebuffer, the deferred I/O code used struct page.lru as an entry into the list of dirty pages. The lru field is owned by the page cache, which makes deferred I/O incompatible with some memory pages (e.g., most notably DRM's GEM SHMEM allocator). struct fb_deferred_io_pageref now provides an entry into a list of dirty framebuffer pages, freeing lru for use with the page cache. Drivers also assumed that struct page.index is the page offset into the framebuffer. This is not true for DRM buffers, which are located at various offset within a mapped area. struct fb_deferred_io_pageref explicitly stores an offset into the framebuffer. struct page.index is now only the page offset into the mapped area. These changes will allow DRM to use fbdev deferred I/O without an intermediate shadow buffer. v3: * use pageref->offset for sorting * fix grammar in comment v2: * minor fixes in commit message Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20220429100834.18898-3-tzimmermann@suse.de
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.