Re: [PATCH 0/9] Add support for SVM atomics in Nouveau

[Alistair Popple]

On Thursday, 11 February 2021 6:55:10 PM AEDT Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 01:59:13PM -0400, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > Really what you want to do here is leave the CPU page in the VMA and
> > the page tables where it started and deny CPU access to the page. Then
> > all the proper machinery will continue to work.
> > 
> > IMHO "migration" is the wrong idea if the data isn't actually moving.
> 
> Agreed.
 
I chose "migration" because device private pages seemed like a good way of 
reusing existing code to do what was required (a callback on CPU access).

However I have been reworking this to use mmu notifiers as the callback and it 
seems to simplify some things nicely so think I also agree. It removes the 
requirement for the pin as well which is nice, I'll post it as a v2 soon.

 - Alistair