Messages in this thread | | | From | Alistair Popple <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v8 5/8] mm: Device exclusive memory access | Date | Wed, 19 May 2021 22:46:43 +1000 |
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On Wednesday, 19 May 2021 10:21:08 PM AEST Peter Xu wrote: > External email: Use caution opening links or attachments > > On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 09:35:10PM +1000, Alistair Popple wrote: > > I think the approach you are describing is similar to what > > migrate_vma_collect()/migrate_vma_unamp() does now and I think it could be > > made to work. I ended up going with the GUP+unmap approach in part because > > Christoph suggested it but primarily because it required less code > > especially given we needed to call something to fault the page in/break > > COW anyway (or extend what was there to call handle_mm_fault(), etc.). > > I see, thank. Would you mind add a short paragraph in the commit message > talking about these two solutions and why we choose the GUP way?
Sure.
- Alistair
> -- > Peter Xu
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