Re: hmm_range_fault related fixes and legacy API removal v3

From: Jason Gunthorpe
Date: Thu Jul 25 2019 - 20:16:36 EST


On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 08:52:51AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Hi JÃrÃme, Ben and Jason,
>
> below is a series against the hmm tree which fixes up the mmap_sem
> locking in nouveau and while at it also removes leftover legacy HMM APIs
> only used by nouveau.
>
> The first 4 patches are a bug fix for nouveau, which I suspect should
> go into this merge window even if the code is marked as staging, just
> to avoid people copying the breakage.
>
> Changes since v2:
> - new patch from Jason to document FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY semantics
> better
> - remove -EAGAIN handling in nouveau earlier

I don't see Ralph's tested by, do you think it changed enough to
require testing again? If so, Ralph would you be so kind?

In any event, I'm sending this into linux-next and intend to forward
the first four next week.

Thanks,
Jason