mm: add remap_pfn_range_notrack

Patch series "add remap_pfn_range_notrack instead of reinventing it in i915", v2.

i915 has some reason to want to avoid the track_pfn_remap overhead in
remap_pfn_range.  Add a function to the core VM to do just that rather
than reinventing the functionality poorly in the driver.

Note that the remap_io_sg path does get exercises when using Xorg on my
Thinkpad X1, so this should be considered lightly tested, I've not managed
to hit the remap_io_mapping path at all.

This patch (of 4):

Add a version of remap_pfn_range that does not call track_pfn_range.  This
will be used to fix horrible abuses of VM internals in the i915 driver.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Daniel Vetter <[email protected]>
Cc: Jani Nikula <[email protected]>
Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <[email protected]>
Cc: Rodrigo Vivi <[email protected]>
Cc: Chris Wilson <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index 64be3baf861a..a8335cecf706 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -2732,6 +2732,8 @@ unsigned long change_prot_numa(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 struct vm_area_struct *find_extend_vma(struct mm_struct *, unsigned long addr);
 int remap_pfn_range(struct vm_area_struct *, unsigned long addr,
 			unsigned long pfn, unsigned long size, pgprot_t);
+int remap_pfn_range_notrack(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
+		unsigned long pfn, unsigned long size, pgprot_t prot);
 int vm_insert_page(struct vm_area_struct *, unsigned long addr, struct page *);
 int vm_insert_pages(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
 			struct page **pages, unsigned long *num);