linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 0/9] mmu notifier provide context informations

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Message-ID: <CAPcyv4gUFSA6u77dGA6XxO41217zQ27DNteiHRG515Gtm_uGgg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 19 Feb 2019 12:40:37 -0800
From:   Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
To:     Jerome Glisse <jglisse@...hat.com>
Cc:     Linux MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Christian König <christian.koenig@....com>,
        Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...ux.intel.com>,
        Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@...el.com>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
        Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
        Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>,
        Felix Kuehling <Felix.Kuehling@....com>,
        Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...lanox.com>,
        Ross Zwisler <zwisler@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@...hat.com>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@...dia.com>,
        John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>,
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        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/9] mmu notifier provide context informations

On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 12:30 PM Jerome Glisse <jglisse@...hat.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 12:15:55PM -0800, Dan Williams wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 12:04 PM <jglisse@...hat.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > From: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@...hat.com>
> > >
> > > Since last version [4] i added the extra bits needed for the change_pte
> > > optimization (which is a KSM thing). Here i am not posting users of
> > > this, they will be posted to the appropriate sub-systems (KVM, GPU,
> > > RDMA, ...) once this serie get upstream. If you want to look at users
> > > of this see [5] [6]. If this gets in 5.1 then i will be submitting
> > > those users for 5.2 (including KVM if KVM folks feel comfortable with
> > > it).
> >
> > The users look small and straightforward. Why not await acks and
> > reviewed-by's for the users like a typical upstream submission and
> > merge them together? Is all of the functionality of this
> > infrastructure consumed by the proposed users? Last time I checked it
> > was only a subset.
>
> Yes pretty much all is use, the unuse case is SOFT_DIRTY and CLEAR
> vs UNMAP. Both of which i intend to use. The RDMA folks already ack
> the patches IIRC, so did radeon and amdgpu. I believe the i915 folks
> were ok with it too. I do not want to merge things through Andrew
> for all of this we discussed that in the past, merge mm bits through
> Andrew in one release and bits that use things in the next release.

Ok, I was trying to find the links to the acks on the mailing list,
those references would address my concerns. I see no reason to rush
SOFT_DIRTY and CLEAR ahead of the upstream user.