linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] hmm: Device exclusive memory access

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Message-ID: <20210219140105.GE2643399@ziepe.ca>
Date:   Fri, 19 Feb 2021 10:01:05 -0400
From:   Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:     Alistair Popple <apopple@...dia.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        nouveau@...ts.freedesktop.org, bskeggs@...hat.com,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm-ppc@...r.kernel.org,
        dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, jhubbard@...dia.com,
        rcampbell@...dia.com, jglisse@...hat.com, daniel@...ll.ch
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] hmm: Device exclusive memory access

On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 09:47:41AM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> > diff --git a/include/linux/hmm.h b/include/linux/hmm.h
> > index 866a0fa104c4..5d28ff6d4d80 100644
> > +++ b/include/linux/hmm.h
> > @@ -109,6 +109,10 @@ struct hmm_range {
> >   */
> >  int hmm_range_fault(struct hmm_range *range);
> >  
> > +int hmm_exclusive_range(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long start,
> > +			unsigned long end, struct page **pages);
> > +vm_fault_t hmm_remove_exclusive_entry(struct vm_fault *vmf);
> 
> Can we avoid the hmm naming for new code (we should probably also kill
> it off for the existing code)?

Yes please, I'd prefer it if hmm.c was just the special page walker
and not a grab bag of unrelated things

Is there is a more natural place to put this in the mm for this idea?

Jason