On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 1:57 AM Daniel Vetter <daniel.vet...@ffwll.ch> wrote:
>
> When we care about pagecache maintenance, we need to make sure that
> both f_mapping and i_mapping point at the right mapping.
>
> But for iomem mappings we only care about the virtual/pte side of
> things, so f_mapping is enough. Also setting inode->i_mapping was
> confusing me as a driver maintainer, since in e.g. drivers/gpu we
> don't do that. Per Dan this seems to be copypasta from places which do
> care about pagecache consistency, but not needed. Hence remove it for
> slightly less confusion.
>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vet...@intel.com>
> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <j...@ziepe.ca>
> Cc: Kees Cook <keesc...@chromium.org>
> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.willi...@intel.com>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubb...@nvidia.com>
> Cc: Jérôme Glisse <jgli...@redhat.com>
> Cc: Jan Kara <j...@suse.cz>
> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.willi...@intel.com>

Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.willi...@intel.com>
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