Messages in this thread | | | From | Jérôme Glisse <> | Subject | mm preparatory patches for HMM and IOMMUv2 | Date | Fri, 27 Jun 2014 22:00:18 -0400 |
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Andrew so here are a set of mm patch that do some ground modification to core mm code. They apply on top of today's linux-next and they pass checkpatch.pl with flying color (except patch 4 but i did not wanted to be a nazi about 80 char line).
Patch 1 is the mmput notifier call chain we discussed with AMD.
Patch 2, 3 and 4 are so far only useful to HMM but i am discussing with AMD and i believe it will be useful to them to (in the context of IOMMUv2).
Patch 2 allows to differentiate page unmap for vmscan reason or for poisoning.
Patch 3 associate mmu_notifier with an event type allowing to take different code path inside mmu_notifier callback depending on what is currently happening to the cpu page table. There is no functional change, it just add a new argument to the various mmu_notifier calls and callback.
Patch 4 pass along the vma into which the range invalidation is happening. There is few functional changes in place where mmu_notifier_range_invalidate_start/end used [0, -1] as range, instead now those place call the notifier once for each vma. This might prove to add unwanted overhead hence why i did it as a separate patch.
I did not include the core hmm patch but i intend to send a v4 next week. So i really would like to see those included for next release.
As usual comments welcome.
Cheers, Jérôme Glisse
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