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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/3] make pfn walker support ZONE_DEVICE
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

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