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SubjectRe: [PATCH] mm/Kconfig: additional help text for HMM_MIRROR option
On Thu 2019-07-18 22:57:48, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 06:32:53PM -0700, john.hubbard@gmail.com wrote:
> > + HMM_MIRROR provides a way to mirror ranges of the CPU page tables
> > + of a process into a device page table. Here, mirror means "keep
> > + synchronized". Prerequisites: the device must provide the ability
> > + to write-protect its page tables (at PAGE_SIZE granularity), and
> > + must be able to recover from the resulting potential page faults.
> > +
> > + Select HMM_MIRROR if you have hardware that meets the above
> > + description. An early, partial list of such hardware is:
> > + an NVIDIA GPU >= Pascal, Mellanox IB >= mlx5, or an AMD GPU.
>
> Nevermind that the Nvidia support is stagaging and looks rather broken,
> there is no Mellanox user of this either at this point.
>
> But either way this has no business in a common kconfig help. Just
> drop the fine grained details and leave it to the overview.

I disagree here. This explains what kind of hardware this is for (very
new). Partial list does not hurt, and I know that I probably don't
need to enable this.

How else am I supposed to know if my computer needs page tables
synchronized?

Pavel
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