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Commit 6796cb16 authored by David Herrmann's avatar David Herrmann
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drm: use anon-inode instead of relying on cdevs


DRM drivers share a common address_space across all character-devices of a
single DRM device. This allows simple buffer eviction and mapping-control.
However, DRM core currently waits for the first ->open() on any char-dev
to mark the underlying inode as backing inode of the device. This delayed
initialization causes ugly conditions all over the place:
  if (dev->dev_mapping)
    do_sth();

To avoid delayed initialization and to stop reusing the inode of the
char-dev, we allocate an anonymous inode for each DRM device and reset
filp->f_mapping to it on ->open().

Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>
parent 31bbe16f
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