Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm: export find_extend_vma and handle_mm_fault for driver use

From: Jesse Barnes
Date: Mon Oct 27 2014 - 11:35:54 EST


Thanks, I have no way of testing this, but I'm hopeful. :)

Jesse

On Mon, 27 Oct 2014 17:15:45 +0200
Oded Gabbay <oded.gabbay@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Sure, no problem
>
> Oded
>
> On 10/27/2014 05:13 PM, Joerg Roedel wrote:
>
> Hi Oded,
>
> can you please test these patches with the KFD driver and make sure
> nothing breaks for you? I really like this improvement and it would be
> great to send it upstream for v3.19.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Joerg
>
> On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 12:34:30PM -0700, Jesse Barnes wrote:
>
> > This lets drivers like the AMD IOMMUv2 driver handle faults a bit more
> > simply, rather than doing tricks with page refs and get_user_pages().
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > mm/memory.c | 1 +
> > mm/mmap.c | 2 ++
> > 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
> > index 1cc6bfb..969ff0c 100644
> > --- a/mm/memory.c
> > +++ b/mm/memory.c
> > @@ -3378,6 +3378,7 @@ int handle_mm_fault(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> >
> > return ret;
> > }
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(handle_mm_fault);
> >
> > #ifndef __PAGETABLE_PUD_FOLDED
> > /*
> > diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c
> > index 7f85520..2ee7971 100644
> > --- a/mm/mmap.c
> > +++ b/mm/mmap.c
> > @@ -2359,6 +2359,8 @@ find_extend_vma(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr)
> > }
> > #endif
> >
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(find_extend_vma);
> > +
> > /*
> > * Ok - we have the memory areas we should free on the vma list,
> > * so release them, and do the vma updates.
> > --
> > 1.9.1
>
>


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