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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: "Christoph Hellwig" <hch@lst.de>,
	"Jason Gunthorpe" <jgg@mellanox.com>,
	"Jérôme Glisse" <jglisse@redhat.com>,
	"Ben Skeggs" <bskeggs@redhat.com>,
	"Felix Kuehling" <Felix.Kuehling@amd.com>,
	"Ralph Campbell" <rcampbell@nvidia.com>,
	"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	"nouveau@lists.freedesktop.org" <nouveau@lists.freedesktop.org>,
	"dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org"
	<dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>,
	"amd-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org" <amd-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/15] mm: remove the pgmap field from struct hmm_vma_walk
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2019 09:38:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190814073854.GA27249@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPcyv4hMUzw8vyXFRPe2pdwef0npbMm9tx9wiZ9MWkHGhH1V6w@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 06:36:33PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> Section alignment constraints somewhat save us here. The only example
> I can think of a PMD not containing a uniform pgmap association for
> each pte is the case when the pgmap overlaps normal dram, i.e. shares
> the same 'struct memory_section' for a given span. Otherwise, distinct
> pgmaps arrange to manage their own exclusive sections (and now
> subsections as of v5.3). Otherwise the implementation could not
> guarantee different mapping lifetimes.
> 
> That said, this seems to want a better mechanism to determine "pfn is
> ZONE_DEVICE".

So I guess this patch is fine for now, and once you provide a better
mechanism we can switch over to it?


  reply	other threads:[~2019-08-14  7:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-06 16:05 hmm cleanups, v2 Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-06 16:05 ` [PATCH 01/15] amdgpu: remove -EAGAIN handling for hmm_range_fault Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-06 16:05 ` [PATCH 02/15] amdgpu: don't initialize range->list in amdgpu_hmm_init_range Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-06 16:05 ` [PATCH 03/15] nouveau: pass struct nouveau_svmm to nouveau_range_fault Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-06 18:02   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-08-06 16:05 ` [PATCH 04/15] mm: remove the pgmap field from struct hmm_vma_walk Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-07 17:45   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-08-07 18:47     ` Dan Williams
2019-08-08  6:59       ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-14  1:36         ` Dan Williams
2019-08-14  7:38           ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2019-08-14 13:27             ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-08-14 14:48               ` Dan Williams
2019-08-15 18:03                 ` Jerome Glisse
2019-08-15 19:22                   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-08-15 19:36                   ` Dan Williams
2019-08-15 19:43                     ` Jerome Glisse
2019-08-15 20:12                       ` Dan Williams
2019-08-15 20:33                         ` Jerome Glisse
2019-08-15 20:41                           ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-08-15 20:47                             ` Dan Williams
2019-08-16  0:40                               ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-08-16  3:54                                 ` Dan Williams
2019-08-16 12:24                                   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-08-16 17:21                                     ` Dan Williams
2019-08-16 17:28                                       ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-08-16 21:10                                         ` Ralph Campbell
2019-08-15 20:51                             ` Jerome Glisse
2019-08-16  0:43                               ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-08-16  4:44                                 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-16 12:30                                   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-08-16 12:34                                     ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-16  4:41                           ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-06 16:05 ` [PATCH 05/15] mm: remove the unused vma argument to hmm_range_dma_unmap Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-06 16:05 ` [PATCH 06/15] mm: remove superflous arguments from hmm_range_register Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-06 16:05 ` [PATCH 07/15] mm: remove the page_shift member from struct hmm_range Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-07 17:51   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-08-06 16:05 ` [PATCH 08/15] mm: remove the mask variable in hmm_vma_walk_hugetlb_entry Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-06 18:02   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-08-06 16:05 ` [PATCH 09/15] mm: don't abuse pte_index() in hmm_vma_handle_pmd Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-07 17:18   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-08-06 16:05 ` [PATCH 10/15] mm: only define hmm_vma_walk_pud if needed Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-06 16:05 ` [PATCH 11/15] mm: cleanup the hmm_vma_handle_pmd stub Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-06 18:00   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-08-06 16:05 ` [PATCH 12/15] mm: cleanup the hmm_vma_walk_hugetlb_entry stub Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-06 16:05 ` [PATCH 13/15] mm: allow HMM_MIRROR on all architectures with MMU Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-06 16:05 ` [PATCH 14/15] mm: make HMM_MIRROR an implicit option Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-06 17:44   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-08-06 16:05 ` [PATCH 15/15] amdgpu: remove CONFIG_DRM_AMDGPU_USERPTR Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-06 17:44   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-08-06 17:51     ` Kuehling, Felix
2019-08-06 18:58       ` Alex Deucher
2019-08-06 20:03         ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-08-07  6:57           ` Koenig, Christian
2019-08-07 11:46             ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-08-07 18:17 ` hmm cleanups, v2 Jason Gunthorpe

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