linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 18/22] mm: mark DEVICE

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Date:   Tue, 25 Jun 2019 13:59:21 +0200
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...lanox.com>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        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: [PATCH 18/22] mm: mark DEVICE_PUBLIC as broken

On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 11:44:28AM +0000, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> Which tree and what does the resolution look like?

Looks like in -mm.  The current commit in linux-next is:

commit 0d23b042f26955fb35721817beb98ba7f1d9ed9f
Author: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>
Date:   Fri Jun 14 10:42:14 2019 +1000

    mm: clean up is_device_*_page() definitions


> Also, I don't want to be making the decision if we should keep/remove
> DEVICE_PUBLIC, so let's get an Ack from Andrew/etc?
> 
> My main reluctance is that I know there is HW out there that can do
> coherent, and I want to believe they are coming with patches, just
> too slowly. But I'd also rather those people defend themselves :P

Lets keep everything as-is for now.  I'm pretty certain nothing
will show up, but letting this linger another release or two
shouldn't be much of a problem.  And if we urgently feel like removing
it we can do it after -rc1.