From: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
To: Evgeny Baskakov <ebaskakov@nvidia.com>
Cc: "akpm@linux-foundation.org" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>,
David Nellans <dnellans@nvidia.com>,
Mark Hairgrove <mhairgrove@nvidia.com>,
Sherry Cheung <SCheung@nvidia.com>,
Subhash Gutti <sgutti@nvidia.com>
Subject: Re: [HMM 12/15] mm/migrate: new memory migration helper for use with device memory v4
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2017 20:57:50 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170701005749.GA7232@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5f476e8c-8256-13a8-2228-a2b9e5650586@nvidia.com>
On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 04:19:25PM -0700, Evgeny Baskakov wrote:
> Hi Jerome,
>
> It seems that the kernel can pass 0 in src_pfns for pages that it cannot
> migrate (i.e. the kernel knows that they cannot migrate prior to calling
> alloc_and_copy).
>
> So, a zero in src_pfns can mean either "the page is not allocated yet" or
> "the page cannot migrate".
>
> Can migrate_vma set the MIGRATE_PFN_MIGRATE flag for not allocated pages? On
> the driver side it is difficult to differentiate between the cases.
So this is what is happening in v24. For thing that can not be migrated you
get 0 and for things that are not allocated you get MIGRATE_PFN_MIGRATE like
the updated comments in migrate.h explain.
Cheers,
Jerome
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Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-05-22 16:51 [HMM 00/15] HMM (Heterogeneous Memory Management) v22 Jérôme Glisse
2017-05-22 16:51 ` [HMM 01/15] hmm: heterogeneous memory management documentation Jérôme Glisse
2017-05-22 16:51 ` [HMM 02/15] mm/hmm: heterogeneous memory management (HMM for short) v3 Jérôme Glisse
2017-05-22 16:51 ` [HMM 03/15] mm/hmm/mirror: mirror process address space on device with HMM helpers v3 Jérôme Glisse
2017-05-22 16:51 ` [HMM 04/15] mm/hmm/mirror: helper to snapshot CPU page table v3 Jérôme Glisse
2017-05-22 16:51 ` [HMM 05/15] mm/hmm/mirror: device page fault handler Jérôme Glisse
2017-05-22 16:51 ` [HMM 06/15] mm/memory_hotplug: introduce add_pages Jérôme Glisse
2017-05-22 16:51 ` [HMM 07/15] mm/ZONE_DEVICE: new type of ZONE_DEVICE for unaddressable memory v2 Jérôme Glisse
2017-05-22 21:17 ` Dan Williams
2017-05-23 21:36 ` [HMM 07/18] mm/ZONE_DEVICE: new type of ZONE_DEVICE for unaddressable memory v3 Jérôme Glisse
2017-05-23 8:36 ` [HMM 07/15] mm/ZONE_DEVICE: new type of ZONE_DEVICE for unaddressable memory v2 kbuild test robot
2017-05-22 16:51 ` [HMM 08/15] mm/ZONE_DEVICE: special case put_page() for device private pages Jérôme Glisse
2017-05-22 19:29 ` Dan Williams
2017-05-22 20:14 ` Jerome Glisse
2017-05-22 20:19 ` Dan Williams
2017-05-22 21:14 ` Jerome Glisse
2017-05-22 20:22 ` Hugh Dickins
2017-05-22 21:17 ` Jerome Glisse
2017-05-23 9:34 ` kbuild test robot
2017-05-23 13:23 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2017-05-23 21:37 ` [HMM 08/18] mm/ZONE_DEVICE: special case put_page() for device private pages v2 Jérôme Glisse
2017-05-22 16:52 ` [HMM 09/15] mm/hmm/devmem: device memory hotplug using ZONE_DEVICE v4 Jérôme Glisse
2017-05-23 21:37 ` [HMM 09/18] mm/hmm/devmem: device memory hotplug using ZONE_DEVICE v5 Jérôme Glisse
2017-05-22 16:52 ` [HMM 10/15] mm/hmm/devmem: dummy HMM device for ZONE_DEVICE memory v3 Jérôme Glisse
2017-05-22 16:52 ` [HMM 11/15] mm/migrate: new migrate mode MIGRATE_SYNC_NO_COPY Jérôme Glisse
2017-05-22 16:52 ` [HMM 12/15] mm/migrate: new memory migration helper for use with device memory v4 Jérôme Glisse
2017-05-23 18:07 ` Reza Arbab
2017-06-27 0:07 ` Evgeny Baskakov
2017-06-30 23:19 ` Evgeny Baskakov
2017-07-01 0:57 ` Jerome Glisse [this message]
2017-07-01 2:06 ` Evgeny Baskakov
2017-07-10 22:59 ` Evgeny Baskakov
2017-07-10 23:43 ` Jerome Glisse
2017-07-11 0:17 ` Evgeny Baskakov
2017-07-11 0:54 ` Jerome Glisse
2017-07-20 21:05 ` Evgeny Baskakov
2017-07-10 23:44 ` Evgeny Baskakov
2017-07-11 18:29 ` Jerome Glisse
2017-07-11 18:42 ` Evgeny Baskakov
2017-07-11 18:49 ` Jerome Glisse
2017-07-11 19:35 ` Evgeny Baskakov
2017-07-13 20:16 ` Jerome Glisse
2017-07-14 5:32 ` Evgeny Baskakov
2017-07-14 19:43 ` Evgeny Baskakov
2017-07-15 0:55 ` Jerome Glisse
2017-07-15 5:04 ` Evgeny Baskakov
2017-07-21 1:00 ` Evgeny Baskakov
2017-07-21 1:33 ` Jerome Glisse
2017-07-21 22:01 ` Evgeny Baskakov
2017-07-25 22:45 ` Evgeny Baskakov
2017-07-26 19:14 ` Jerome Glisse
2017-05-22 16:52 ` [HMM 13/15] mm/migrate: migrate_vma() unmap page from vma while collecting pages Jérôme Glisse
2017-05-22 16:52 ` [HMM 14/15] mm/migrate: support un-addressable ZONE_DEVICE page in migration v2 Jérôme Glisse
2017-05-22 16:52 ` [HMM 15/15] mm/migrate: allow migrate_vma() to alloc new page on empty entry v2 Jérôme Glisse
2017-05-23 22:02 ` [HMM 00/15] HMM (Heterogeneous Memory Management) v22 Jerome Glisse
2017-05-23 22:05 ` Andrew Morton
2017-05-24 1:55 ` Balbir Singh
2017-05-24 17:53 ` Jerome Glisse
2017-06-01 2:04 ` Balbir Singh
2017-06-01 22:38 ` Jerome Glisse
2017-06-03 9:18 ` Balbir Singh
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2017-05-24 17:20 [HMM 00/15] HMM (Heterogeneous Memory Management) v23 Jérôme Glisse
2017-05-24 17:20 ` [HMM 12/15] mm/migrate: new memory migration helper for use with device memory v4 Jérôme Glisse
2017-05-31 3:59 ` Balbir Singh
2017-06-01 22:35 ` Jerome Glisse
2017-06-07 9:02 ` Balbir Singh
2017-06-07 14:06 ` Jerome Glisse
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