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SubjectRe: [PATCH V3 (RESEND) 0/3] arm64: Enable vmemmap mapping from device memory
On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 06:45:27AM +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> This series enables vmemmap backing memory allocation from device memory
> ranges on arm64. But before that, it enables vmemmap_populate_basepages()
> and vmemmap_alloc_block_buf() to accommodate struct vmem_altmap based
> alocation requests.
>
> This series applies on 5.8-rc1.
>
> Pending Question:
>
> altmap_alloc_block_buf() does not have any other remaining users in
> the tree after this change. Should it be converted into a static
> function and it's declaration be dropped from the header
> (include/linux/mm.h). Avoided doing so because I was not sure if there
> are any off-tree users or not.

Well, off-tree users probably have an active fork anyway so they could
switch to vmemmap_alloc_block_buf()...

Regardless, can you please update Documentation/vm/memory-model.rst to
keep it in sync with the code?

> Changes in V3:
>
> - Dropped comment from free_hotplug_page_range() per Robin
> - Modified comment in unmap_hotplug_range() per Robin
> - Enabled altmap support in vmemmap_alloc_block_buf() per Robin
>
> Changes in V2: (https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/3/4/475)
>
> - Rebased on latest hot-remove series (v14) adding P4D page table support
>
> Changes in V1: (https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/1/23/12)
>
> - Added an WARN_ON() in unmap_hotplug_range() when altmap is
> provided without the page table backing memory being freed
>
> Changes in RFC V2: (https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/10/21/11)
>
> - Changed the commit message on 1/2 patch per Will
> - Changed the commit message on 2/2 patch as well
> - Rebased on arm64 memory hot remove series (v10)
>
> RFC V1: (https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/6/28/32)
>
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
> Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>
> Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
> Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>
> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
> Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
> Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org
> Cc: x86@kernel.org
> Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
> Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
>
> Anshuman Khandual (3):
> mm/sparsemem: Enable vmem_altmap support in vmemmap_populate_basepages()
> mm/sparsemem: Enable vmem_altmap support in vmemmap_alloc_block_buf()
> arm64/mm: Enable vmem_altmap support for vmemmap mappings
>
> arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c | 59 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
> arch/ia64/mm/discontig.c | 2 +-
> arch/powerpc/mm/init_64.c | 10 +++----
> arch/riscv/mm/init.c | 2 +-
> arch/x86/mm/init_64.c | 12 ++++----
> include/linux/mm.h | 8 ++++--
> mm/sparse-vmemmap.c | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++-----
> 7 files changed, 87 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.20.1
>

--
Sincerely yours,
Mike.

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