Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] hmm: Device exclusive memory access

[Jason Gunthorpe]

On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 09:47:41AM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> > diff --git a/include/linux/hmm.h b/include/linux/hmm.h
> > index 866a0fa104c4..5d28ff6d4d80 100644
> > +++ b/include/linux/hmm.h
> > @@ -109,6 +109,10 @@ struct hmm_range {
> >   */
> >  int hmm_range_fault(struct hmm_range *range);
> >  
> > +int hmm_exclusive_range(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long start,
> > +			unsigned long end, struct page **pages);
> > +vm_fault_t hmm_remove_exclusive_entry(struct vm_fault *vmf);
> 
> Can we avoid the hmm naming for new code (we should probably also kill
> it off for the existing code)?

Yes please, I'd prefer it if hmm.c was just the special page walker
and not a grab bag of unrelated things

Is there is a more natural place to put this in the mm for this idea?

Jason