linux-kernel - Re: dev_pagemap related cleanups

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Date:   Fri, 14 Jun 2019 08:12:47 +0200
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...lanox.com>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@...hat.com>,
        Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@...hat.com>,
        "linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        "nouveau@...ts.freedesktop.org" <nouveau@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        "dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org" <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        "linux-nvdimm@...ts.01.org" <linux-nvdimm@...ts.01.org>,
        "linux-pci@...r.kernel.org" <linux-pci@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: dev_pagemap related cleanups

On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 02:16:27PM +0000, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 11:43:03AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Hi Dan, Jérôme and Jason,
> > 
> > below is a series that cleans up the dev_pagemap interface so that
> > it is more easily usable, which removes the need to wrap it in hmm
> > and thus allowing to kill a lot of code
> 
> Do you want some of this to run through hmm.git? I see many patches
> that don't seem to have inter-dependencies..

I think running it through hmm.git makes sense.  While there are not
actual functional dependency and just a few cosmetic conflicts keeping
the hmm stuff together makes a lot of sense.