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From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
To: "Jérôme Glisse" <jglisse@redhat.com>,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>,
	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
	Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [HMM v14 05/16] mm/ZONE_DEVICE/unaddressable: add support for un-addressable device memory
Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2016 08:21:28 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <be2861b4-d830-fbd7-e9eb-ebc8e4d913a2@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1481215184-18551-6-git-send-email-jglisse@redhat.com>

On 12/08/2016 08:39 AM, Jérôme Glisse wrote:
> Architecture that wish to support un-addressable device memory should make
> sure to never populate the kernel linar mapping for the physical range.

Does the platform somehow provide a range of physical addresses for this
unaddressable area?  How do we know no memory will be hot-added in a
range we're using for unaddressable device memory, for instance?

  reply	other threads:[~2016-12-08 16:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-08 16:39 [HMM v14 00/16] HMM (Heterogeneous Memory Management) v14 Jérôme Glisse
2016-12-08 16:39 ` [HMM v14 01/16] mm/free_hot_cold_page: catch ZONE_DEVICE pages Jérôme Glisse
2016-12-08 16:39 ` [HMM v14 02/16] mm/memory/hotplug: convert device bool to int to allow for more flags v2 Jérôme Glisse
2016-12-08 16:39 ` [HMM v14 03/16] mm/ZONE_DEVICE/devmem_pages_remove: allow early removal of device memory Jérôme Glisse
2016-12-08 16:39 ` [HMM v14 04/16] mm/ZONE_DEVICE/free-page: callback when page is freed Jérôme Glisse
2016-12-08 16:39 ` [HMM v14 05/16] mm/ZONE_DEVICE/unaddressable: add support for un-addressable device memory Jérôme Glisse
2016-12-08 16:21   ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2016-12-08 16:39     ` Jerome Glisse
2016-12-08 20:07       ` Dave Hansen
2016-12-08 20:37         ` Jerome Glisse
2016-12-26  9:12           ` Anshuman Khandual
2016-12-26 19:02             ` Jerome Glisse
2016-12-08 16:39 ` [HMM v14 06/16] mm/ZONE_DEVICE/x86: " Jérôme Glisse
2016-12-08 16:39 ` [HMM v14 07/16] mm/hmm: heterogeneous memory management (HMM for short) Jérôme Glisse
2016-12-08 16:39 ` [HMM v14 08/16] mm/hmm/mirror: mirror process address space on device with HMM helpers Jérôme Glisse
2016-12-08 16:39 ` [HMM v14 09/16] mm/hmm/mirror: helper to snapshot CPU page table Jérôme Glisse
2016-12-08 16:39 ` [HMM v14 10/16] mm/hmm/mirror: device page fault handler Jérôme Glisse
2016-12-08 16:39 ` [HMM v14 11/16] mm/hmm/migrate: support un-addressable ZONE_DEVICE page in migration Jérôme Glisse
2016-12-08 16:39 ` [HMM v14 12/16] mm/hmm/migrate: add new boolean copy flag to migratepage() callback Jérôme Glisse
2016-12-08 16:39 ` [HMM v14 13/16] mm/hmm/migrate: new memory migration helper for use with device memory v2 Jérôme Glisse
2016-12-08 16:39 ` [HMM v14 14/16] mm/hmm/migrate: optimize page map once in vma being migrated Jérôme Glisse
2016-12-08 16:39 ` [HMM v14 15/16] mm/hmm/devmem: device driver helper to hotplug ZONE_DEVICE memory Jérôme Glisse
2016-12-08 16:39 ` [HMM v14 16/16] mm/hmm/devmem: dummy HMM device as an helper for " Jérôme Glisse

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