linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 03/25] mm: remove hmm_devmem_add

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Date:   Thu, 27 Jun 2019 16:18:22 +0000
From:   Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...lanox.com>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
CC:     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>,
        John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/25] mm: remove hmm_devmem_add_resource

On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 02:27:02PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> This function has never been used since it was first added to the kernel
> more than a year and a half ago, and if we ever grow a consumer of the
> MEMORY_DEVICE_PUBLIC infrastructure it can easily use devm_memremap_pages
> directly.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
> Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...lanox.com>
> Reviewed-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>
> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
> ---
>  include/linux/hmm.h |  3 ---
>  mm/hmm.c            | 50 ---------------------------------------------
>  2 files changed, 53 deletions(-)

This should be squashed to the new earlier patch?

Jason