From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga12.intel.com (mga12.intel.com [192.55.52.136]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ml01.01.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D0430212909FB for ; Thu, 13 Jun 2019 17:41:54 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2019 17:43:15 -0700 From: Ira Weiny Subject: Re: [PATCH 18/22] mm: mark DEVICE_PUBLIC as broken Message-ID: <20190614004314.GD783@iweiny-DESK2.sc.intel.com> References: <20190613094326.24093-1-hch@lst.de> <20190613094326.24093-19-hch@lst.de> <20190613194430.GY22062@mellanox.com> <20190613195819.GA22062@mellanox.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20190613195819.GA22062@mellanox.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Errors-To: linux-nvdimm-bounces@lists.01.org Sender: "Linux-nvdimm" To: Jason Gunthorpe Cc: Ralph Campbell , "linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org" , "nouveau@lists.freedesktop.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org" , "linux-mm@kvack.org" , =?iso-8859-1?B?Suly9G1l?= Glisse , Ben Skeggs , "linux-pci@vger.kernel.org" , Christoph Hellwig List-ID: On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 07:58:29PM +0000, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 12:53:02PM -0700, Ralph Campbell wrote: > > > > On 6/13/19 12:44 PM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > > On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 11:43:21AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > > The code hasn't been used since it was added to the tree, and doesn't > > > > appear to actually be usable. Mark it as BROKEN until either a user > > > > comes along or we finally give up on it. > > > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig > > > > mm/Kconfig | 1 + > > > > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) > > > > > > > > diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig > > > > index 0d2ba7e1f43e..406fa45e9ecc 100644 > > > > +++ b/mm/Kconfig > > > > @@ -721,6 +721,7 @@ config DEVICE_PRIVATE > > > > config DEVICE_PUBLIC > > > > bool "Addressable device memory (like GPU memory)" > > > > depends on ARCH_HAS_HMM > > > > + depends on BROKEN > > > > select HMM > > > > select DEV_PAGEMAP_OPS > > > > > > This seems a bit harsh, we do have another kconfig that selects this > > > one today: > > > > > > config DRM_NOUVEAU_SVM > > > bool "(EXPERIMENTAL) Enable SVM (Shared Virtual Memory) support" > > > depends on ARCH_HAS_HMM > > > depends on DRM_NOUVEAU > > > depends on STAGING > > > select HMM_MIRROR > > > select DEVICE_PRIVATE > > > default n > > > help > > > Say Y here if you want to enable experimental support for > > > Shared Virtual Memory (SVM). > > > > > > Maybe it should be depends on STAGING not broken? > > > > > > or maybe nouveau_svm doesn't actually need DEVICE_PRIVATE? > > > > > > Jason > > > > I think you are confusing DEVICE_PRIVATE for DEVICE_PUBLIC. > > DRM_NOUVEAU_SVM does use DEVICE_PRIVATE but not DEVICE_PUBLIC. > > Indeed you are correct, never mind > > Hum, so the only thing this config does is short circuit here: > > static inline bool is_device_public_page(const struct page *page) > { > return IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DEV_PAGEMAP_OPS) && > IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DEVICE_PUBLIC) && > is_zone_device_page(page) && > page->pgmap->type == MEMORY_DEVICE_PUBLIC; > } > > Which is called all over the place.. yes but the earlier patch: [PATCH 03/22] mm: remove hmm_devmem_add_resource Removes the only place type is set to MEMORY_DEVICE_PUBLIC. So I think it is ok. Frankly I was wondering if we should remove the public type altogether but conceptually it seems ok. But I don't see any users of it so... should we get rid of it in the code rather than turning the config off? Ira > > So, yes, we really don't want any distro or something to turn this on > until it has a use. > > Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe > > Jason > _______________________________________________ > Linux-nvdimm mailing list > Linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org > https://lists.01.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-nvdimm _______________________________________________ Linux-nvdimm mailing list Linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org https://lists.01.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-nvdimm