From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.ibm.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org" <linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org>
Subject: Re: add a not device managed memremap_pages v2
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2019 12:34:01 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190816123356.GE5412@mellanox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190816065434.2129-1-hch@lst.de>
On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 08:54:30AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Hi Dan and Jason,
>
> Bharata has been working on secure page management for kvmppc guests,
> and one I thing I noticed is that he had to fake up a struct device
> just so that it could be passed to the devm_memremap_pages
> instrastructure for device private memory.
>
> This series adds non-device managed versions of the
> devm_request_free_mem_region and devm_memremap_pages functions for
> his use case.
>
> Changes since v1:
> - don't overload devm_request_free_mem_region
> - export the memremap_pages and munmap_pages as kvmppc can be a module
What tree do we want this to go through? Dan are you running a pgmap
tree still? Do we know of any conflicts?
Thanks,
Jason
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-16 12:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-16 6:54 add a not device managed memremap_pages v2 Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-16 6:54 ` [PATCH 1/4] resource: add a not device managed request_free_mem_region variant Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-16 21:01 ` Andrew Morton
2019-08-18 9:03 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-16 6:54 ` [PATCH 2/4] memremap: remove the dev field in struct dev_pagemap Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-16 6:54 ` [PATCH 3/4] memremap: don't use a separate devm action for devmap_managed_enable_get Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-16 6:54 ` [PATCH 4/4] memremap: provide a not device managed memremap_pages Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-16 21:00 ` Andrew Morton
2019-08-18 9:04 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-16 10:48 ` add a not device managed memremap_pages v2 Bharata B Rao
2019-08-16 12:34 ` Jason Gunthorpe [this message]
2019-08-16 12:36 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-16 12:40 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-08-16 23:59 ` Ira Weiny
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