linux-kernel - Re: hmm_range_fault related fixes and legacy API removal v2

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Message-ID: <20190709143038.GA3092@lst.de>
Date:   Tue, 9 Jul 2019 16:30:38 +0200
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@...hat.com>,
        Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@...hat.com>,
        Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@...dia.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        nouveau@...ts.freedesktop.org, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: hmm_range_fault related fixes and legacy API removal v2

On Fri, Jul 05, 2019 at 09:33:36AM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 03, 2019 at 03:02:08PM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Hi Jérôme, Ben and Jason,
> > 
> > below is a series against the hmm tree which fixes up the mmap_sem
> > locking in nouveau and while at it also removes leftover legacy HMM APIs
> > only used by nouveau.
> 
> As much as I like this series, it won't make it to this merge window,
> sorry.

Note that patch 4 fixes a pretty severe locking bug, and 1-3 is just
preparation for that.