Re: add a not device managed memremap_pages v2

From: Ira Weiny
Date: Fri Aug 16 2019 - 19:59:31 EST


On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 08:54:30AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Hi Dan and Jason,
>
> Bharata has been working on secure page management for kvmppc guests,
> and one I thing I noticed is that he had to fake up a struct device
> just so that it could be passed to the devm_memremap_pages
> instrastructure for device private memory.
>
> This series adds non-device managed versions of the
> devm_request_free_mem_region and devm_memremap_pages functions for
> his use case.
>
> Changes since v1:
> - don't overload devm_request_free_mem_region
> - export the memremap_pages and munmap_pages as kvmppc can be a module

Except for the questions from Andrew this does not look to change anything so:

Reviewed-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@xxxxxxxxx>

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