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Message-ID: <a1cbe3e8-2b2c-150a-7919-65bdd38f75be@linux.intel.com>
Date:   Fri, 17 Nov 2023 09:33:08 +0100
From:   Thomas Hellström 
        <thomas.hellstrom@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@...il.com>,
        intel-xe@...ts.freedesktop.org
Cc:     Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@...el.com>,
        Matthew Brost <matthew.brost@...el.com>,
        Danilo Krummrich <dakr@...hat.com>,
        Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Oak Zeng <oak.zeng@...el.com>, Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>,
        Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@...ux.intel.com>,
        Francois Dugast <francois.dugast@...el.com>,
        Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@...labora.com>,
        Linux DRI Development <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Documentation <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] Documentation/gpu: VM_BIND locking document

Hi,


On 11/16/23 14:13, Bagas Sanjaya wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 15, 2023 at 01:49:37PM +0100, Thomas Hellström wrote:
>> +TODO: Pointer to the gpuvm code implementation if this iteration and
> "... implementation of this iteration ..."
>
>> +Using a MMU notifier for device DMA (and other methods) is described in
>> +`this document
>> +<https://docs.kernel.org/core-api/pin_user_pages.html#case-3-mmu-notifier-registration-with-or-without-page-faulting-hardware>`_.
> You can use internal linking instead:
>
> ---- >8 ----
> diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst b/Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst
> index d3c1f6d8c0e0ec..6b5f7e6e7155fb 100644
> --- a/Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst
> @@ -153,6 +153,8 @@ NOTE: Some pages, such as DAX pages, cannot be pinned with longterm pins. That's
>   because DAX pages do not have a separate page cache, and so "pinning" implies
>   locking down file system blocks, which is not (yet) supported in that way.
>   
> +.. _mmu-notifier-registration-case:
> +
>   CASE 3: MMU notifier registration, with or without page faulting hardware
>   -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>   Device drivers can pin pages via get_user_pages*(), and register for mmu
> diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/drm-vm-bind-locking.rst b/Documentation/gpu/drm-vm-bind-locking.rst
> index bc701157cb3414..08b6a47a6e592f 100644
> --- a/Documentation/gpu/drm-vm-bind-locking.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/gpu/drm-vm-bind-locking.rst
> @@ -366,8 +366,7 @@ need to care about, but so far it has proven difficult to exclude
>   certain notifications.
>   
>   Using a MMU notifier for device DMA (and other methods) is described in
> -`this document
> -<https://docs.kernel.org/core-api/pin_user_pages.html#case-3-mmu-notifier-registration-with-or-without-page-faulting-hardware>`_.
> +:ref:`pin_user_pages() documentation <mmu-notifier-registration-case>`.
>   
>   Now the method of obtaining struct page references using
>   get_user_pages() unfortunately can't be used under a dma_resv lock
>
> Thanks.
>
Thanks. I'll take a look at doing this as well.

Thomas