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* mm preparatory patches for HMM and IOMMUv2
@ 2014-06-28  2:00 Jérôme Glisse
  2014-06-28  2:00 ` [PATCH 1/6] mmput: use notifier chain to call subsystem exit handler Jérôme Glisse
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From: Jérôme Glisse @ 2014-06-28  2:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: akpm, linux-mm, linux-kernel
  Cc: mgorman, hpa, peterz, aarcange, riel, jweiner, torvalds,
	Mark Hairgrove, Jatin Kumar, Subhash Gutti, Lucien Dunning,
	Cameron Buschardt, Arvind Gopalakrishnan, John Hubbard,
	Sherry Cheung, Duncan Poole, Oded Gabbay, Alexander Deucher,
	Andrew Lewycky

Andrew so here are a set of mm patch that do some ground modification to core
mm code. They apply on top of today's linux-next and they pass checkpatch.pl
with flying color (except patch 4 but i did not wanted to be a nazi about 80
char line).

Patch 1 is the mmput notifier call chain we discussed with AMD.

Patch 2, 3 and 4 are so far only useful to HMM but i am discussing with AMD and
i believe it will be useful to them to (in the context of IOMMUv2).

Patch 2 allows to differentiate page unmap for vmscan reason or for poisoning.

Patch 3 associate mmu_notifier with an event type allowing to take different code
path inside mmu_notifier callback depending on what is currently happening to the
cpu page table. There is no functional change, it just add a new argument to the
various mmu_notifier calls and callback.

Patch 4 pass along the vma into which the range invalidation is happening. There
is few functional changes in place where mmu_notifier_range_invalidate_start/end
used [0, -1] as range, instead now those place call the notifier once for each
vma. This might prove to add unwanted overhead hence why i did it as a separate
patch.

I did not include the core hmm patch but i intend to send a v4 next week. So i
really would like to see those included for next release.

As usual comments welcome.

Cheers,
Jérôme Glisse


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2014-06-28  2:00 mm preparatory patches for HMM and IOMMUv2 Jérôme Glisse
2014-06-28  2:00 ` [PATCH 1/6] mmput: use notifier chain to call subsystem exit handler Jérôme Glisse
2014-06-30  3:49   ` John Hubbard
2014-06-30 15:07     ` Jerome Glisse
2014-06-30 15:37   ` Joerg Roedel
2014-06-28  2:00 ` [PATCH 2/6] mm: differentiate unmap for vmscan from other unmap Jérôme Glisse
2014-06-30  3:58   ` John Hubbard
2014-06-30 15:58     ` Jerome Glisse
2014-06-28  2:00 ` [PATCH 3/6] mmu_notifier: add event information to address invalidation v2 Jérôme Glisse
2014-06-30  5:22   ` John Hubbard
2014-06-30 15:57     ` Jerome Glisse
2014-07-01  1:57   ` Linus Torvalds
2014-06-28  2:00 ` [PATCH 4/6] mmu_notifier: pass through vma to invalidate_range and invalidate_page Jérôme Glisse
2014-06-30  3:29   ` John Hubbard
2014-06-30 16:00     ` Jerome Glisse
2014-07-01  2:04   ` Linus Torvalds

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