/dev/mem: Only set filp->f_mapping
authorDaniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Fri, 27 Nov 2020 16:41:23 +0000 (17:41 +0100)
committerDaniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Tue, 12 Jan 2021 13:26:31 +0000 (14:26 +0100)
commit0fb1b1ed7dd92ca9775f8292cc7b85b93182dcb0
treee6cefc27f5c0f1a584702d166f64872c2127fcb0
parentdc217d2c5a7efd3ba6c2da4be6f40038295e179c
/dev/mem: Only set filp->f_mapping

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.vetter@intel.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-samsung-soc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-media@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20201127164131.2244124-10-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
drivers/char/mem.c