Re: [PATCH v8 5/8] mm: Device exclusive memory access

[Peter Xu]

On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 09:35:10PM +1000, Alistair Popple wrote:
> I think the approach you are describing is similar to what 
> migrate_vma_collect()/migrate_vma_unamp() does now and I think it could be 
> made to work. I ended up going with the GUP+unmap approach in part because 
> Christoph suggested it but primarily because it required less code especially 
> given we needed to call something to fault the page in/break COW anyway (or 
> extend what was there to call handle_mm_fault(), etc.).

I see, thank. Would you mind add a short paragraph in the commit message
talking about these two solutions and why we choose the GUP way?

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Peter Xu