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Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2021 11:08:30 -0400 From: Felix Kuehling <felix.kuehling@....com> To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>, Alex Sierra <alex.sierra@....com>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-mm@...ck.org, rcampbell@...dia.com, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org, amd-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, jgg@...dia.com, jglisse@...hat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/8] Support DEVICE_GENERIC memory in migrate_vma_* Am 2021-06-24 um 1:30 a.m. schrieb Christoph Hellwig: > On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 05:49:55PM -0400, Felix Kuehling wrote: >> For the reference counting changes we could use the dax driver with hmem >> and use efi_fake_mem on the kernel command line to create some >> DEVICE_GENERIC pages. I'm open to suggestions for good user mode tests to >> exercise dax functionality on this type of memory. >> >> For the migration helper changes we could modify or parametrize >> lib/hmm_test.c to create DEVICE_GENERIC pages instead of DEVICE_PRIVATE. >> Then run tools/testing/selftests/vm/hmm-tests.c. > We'll also need a real in-tree user of the enhanced DEVICE_GENERIC memory. > So while the refcounting cleanups early in the series are something I'd > really like to see upstream as soon as everything is sorted out, the > actual bits that can't only be used by your updated driver should wait > for that. The driver changes are pretty much ready to go. But we have a bit of a chicken-egg problem because those changes likely go through different trees. The GPU driver changes will go through drm-next, but we can't merge them there until our dependencies have been merged there from upstream. Unless we protect everything with some #ifdef. Regards, Felix
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