From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
To: Toshiki Fukasawa <t-fukasawa@vx.jp.nec.com>
Cc: "linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
"dan.j.williams@intel.com" <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"akpm@linux-foundation.org" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"adobriyan@gmail.com" <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
"hch@lst.de" <hch@lst.de>,
"longman@redhat.com" <longman@redhat.com>,
"sfr@canb.auug.org.au" <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
"mst@redhat.com" <mst@redhat.com>, "cai@lca.pw" <cai@lca.pw>,
Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>,
Junichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] make pfn walker support ZONE_DEVICE
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2019 10:18:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191108091851.GB15658@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191108000855.25209-1-t-fukasawa@vx.jp.nec.com>
On Fri 08-11-19 00:08:03, Toshiki Fukasawa wrote:
> This patch set tries to make pfn walker support ZONE_DEVICE.
> This idea is from the TODO in below patch:
>
> commit aad5f69bc161af489dbb5934868bd347282f0764
> Author: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
> Date: Fri Oct 18 20:19:20 2019 -0700
>
> fs/proc/page.c: don't access uninitialized memmaps in fs/proc/page.c
>
> pfn walker's ZONE_DEVICE support requires capability to identify
> that a memmap has been initialized. The uninitialized cases are
> as follows:
>
> a) pages reserved for ZONE_DEVICE driver
> b) pages currently initializing
>
> This patch set solves both of them.
Why do we want this? What is the usecase?
>
> Toshiki Fukasawa (3):
> procfs: refactor kpage_*_read() in fs/proc/page.c
> mm: Introduce subsection_dev_map
> mm: make pfn walker support ZONE_DEVICE
>
> fs/proc/page.c | 155 ++++++++++++++++++++---------------------------
> include/linux/memremap.h | 6 ++
> include/linux/mmzone.h | 19 ++++++
> mm/memremap.c | 31 ++++++++++
> mm/sparse.c | 32 ++++++++++
> 5 files changed, 154 insertions(+), 89 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 1.8.3.1
>
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-11-08 9:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-11-08 0:08 [PATCH 0/3] make pfn walker support ZONE_DEVICE Toshiki Fukasawa
2019-11-08 0:08 ` [PATCH 1/3] procfs: refactor kpage_*_read() in fs/proc/page.c Toshiki Fukasawa
2019-11-08 0:08 ` [PATCH 2/3] mm: Introduce subsection_dev_map Toshiki Fukasawa
2019-11-08 19:13 ` Dan Williams
2019-11-13 18:51 ` David Hildenbrand
2019-11-13 19:06 ` Dan Williams
2019-11-13 19:53 ` David Hildenbrand
2019-11-13 20:10 ` Dan Williams
2019-11-13 20:23 ` David Hildenbrand
2019-11-13 20:40 ` David Hildenbrand
2019-11-13 21:11 ` Dan Williams
2019-11-13 21:22 ` David Hildenbrand
2019-11-13 21:26 ` Dan Williams
2019-11-14 23:36 ` Toshiki Fukasawa
2019-11-15 0:46 ` David Hildenbrand
2019-11-15 2:57 ` Toshiki Fukasawa
2019-11-08 0:08 ` [PATCH 3/3] mm: make pfn walker support ZONE_DEVICE Toshiki Fukasawa
2019-11-09 17:08 ` kbuild test robot
2019-11-09 19:14 ` kbuild test robot
2019-11-08 9:18 ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2019-11-11 8:00 ` [PATCH 0/3] " Toshiki Fukasawa
2019-11-11 16:23 ` Dan Williams
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