Re: HMM_MIRROR has less than useful help text

[Balbir Singh]

On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 5:41 PM Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> Commit c0b124054f9e42eb6da545a10fe9122a7d7c3f72 has very nice commit
> message, explaining what HMM_MIRROR is and when it is
> needed. Unfortunately, it did not make it into Kconfig help:
>
> CONFIG_HMM_MIRROR:
>
> Select HMM_MIRROR if you want to mirror range of the CPU page table of
> a
> process into a device page table. Here, mirror means "keep
> synchronized".
> Prerequisites: the device must provide the ability to write-protect
> its
> page tables (at PAGE_SIZE granularity), and must be able to recover
> from
> the resulting potential page faults.
>
> Could that be fixed?
>
> This is key information for me:
>
> # This is a heterogeneous memory management (HMM) process address space
> # mirroring.
> # This is useful for NVidia GPU >= Pascal, Mellanox IB >= mlx5 and more
> # hardware in the future.
>

That seems like a reasonable request

Balbir

> Thanks,
>                                                                 Pavel
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