linux-kernel - add a not device managed memremap

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Message-Id: <20190818090557.17853-1-hch@lst.de>
Date:   Sun, 18 Aug 2019 11:05:53 +0200
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...lanox.com>
Cc:     Bharata B Rao <bharata@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-nvdimm@...ts.01.org
Subject: add a not device managed memremap_pages v3

Hi Dan and Jason,

Bharata has been working on secure page management for kvmppc guests,
and one I thing I noticed is that he had to fake up a struct device
just so that it could be passed to the devm_memremap_pages
instrastructure for device private memory.

This series adds non-device managed versions of the
devm_request_free_mem_region and devm_memremap_pages functions for
his use case.

Changes since v2:
 - improved changelogs that the the v2 changes into account

Changes since v1:
 - don't overload devm_request_free_mem_region
 - export the memremap_pages and munmap_pages as kvmppc can be a module