linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/7] HMM updates, improvements and fixes

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Date:   Fri, 12 Oct 2018 14:15:45 -0400
From:   Jerome Glisse <jglisse@...hat.com>
To:     linux-mm@...ck.org
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] HMM updates, improvements and fixes

On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 03:25:42PM -0400, jglisse@...hat.com wrote:
> From: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@...hat.com>
> 
> Few fixes that only affect HMM users. Improve the synchronization call
> back so that we match was other mmu_notifier listener do and add proper
> support to the new blockable flags in the process.
> 
> For curious folks here are branches to leverage HMM in various existing
> device drivers:
> 
> https://cgit.freedesktop.org/~glisse/linux/log/?h=hmm-nouveau-v01
> https://cgit.freedesktop.org/~glisse/linux/log/?h=hmm-radeon-v00
> https://cgit.freedesktop.org/~glisse/linux/log/?h=hmm-intel-v00
> 
> More to come (amd gpu, Mellanox, ...)
> 
> I expect more of the preparatory work for nouveau will be merge in 4.20
> (like we have been doing since 4.16) and i will wait until this patchset
> is upstream before pushing the patches that actualy make use of HMM (to
> avoid complex tree inter-dependency).
> 

Andrew do you want me to repost this on top of lastest mmotm ?
All conflict should be pretty trivial to fix.

Cheers,
Jérôme