Re: [PATCH 0/7] HMM updates, improvements and fixes

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Fri Oct 12 2018 - 17:12:19 EST


On Fri, 12 Oct 2018 14:15:45 -0400 Jerome Glisse <jglisse@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 03:25:42PM -0400, jglisse@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > From: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Few fixes that only affect HMM users. Improve the synchronization call
> > back so that we match was other mmu_notifier listener do and add proper
> > support to the new blockable flags in the process.
> >
> > For curious folks here are branches to leverage HMM in various existing
> > device drivers:
> >
> > https://cgit.freedesktop.org/~glisse/linux/log/?h=hmm-nouveau-v01
> > https://cgit.freedesktop.org/~glisse/linux/log/?h=hmm-radeon-v00
> > https://cgit.freedesktop.org/~glisse/linux/log/?h=hmm-intel-v00
> >
> > More to come (amd gpu, Mellanox, ...)
> >
> > I expect more of the preparatory work for nouveau will be merge in 4.20
> > (like we have been doing since 4.16) and i will wait until this patchset
> > is upstream before pushing the patches that actualy make use of HMM (to
> > avoid complex tree inter-dependency).
> >
>
> Andrew do you want me to repost this on top of lastest mmotm ?
> All conflict should be pretty trivial to fix.

Please. I ducked v1 because a v2 was in the works. It's very late in
the cycle so you might want to prepare an urgent-for-4.19 series and a
for-4.20 series. Or, better, a single series with the appropriate
Cc:stable tags.

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