Re: [PATCH 20/22] mm: move hmm_vma_fault to nouveau

[Jason Gunthorpe]

On Mon, Jul 01, 2019 at 08:20:18AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> hmm_vma_fault is marked as a legacy API to get rid of, but quite suites
> the current nouvea flow.  Move it to the only user in preparation for
> fixing a locking bug involving caller and callee.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
>  drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_svm.c | 54 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  include/linux/hmm.h                   | 54 ---------------------------
>  2 files changed, 53 insertions(+), 55 deletions(-)

I was thinking about doing exactly this too, but amdgpu started using
this already obsolete API in their latest driver :(

So, we now need to get both drivers to move to the modern API.

Jason