fec88ab0af
Improvements and bug fixes for the hmm interface in the kernel:
- Improve clarity, locking and APIs related to the 'hmm mirror' feature
merged last cycle. In linux-next we now see AMDGPU and nouveau to be
using this API.
- Remove old or transitional hmm APIs. These are hold overs from the past
with no users, or APIs that existed only to manage cross tree conflicts.
There are still a few more of these cleanups that didn't make the merge
window cut off.
- Improve some core mm APIs:
* export alloc_pages_vma() for driver use
* refactor into devm_request_free_mem_region() to manage
DEVICE_PRIVATE resource reservations
* refactor duplicative driver code into the core dev_pagemap
struct
- Remove hmm wrappers of improved core mm APIs, instead have drivers use
the simplified API directly
- Remove DEVICE_PUBLIC
- Simplify the kconfig flow for the hmm users and core code
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Merge tag 'for-linus-hmm' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rdma/rdma
Pull HMM updates from Jason Gunthorpe:
"Improvements and bug fixes for the hmm interface in the kernel:
- Improve clarity, locking and APIs related to the 'hmm mirror'
feature merged last cycle. In linux-next we now see AMDGPU and
nouveau to be using this API.
- Remove old or transitional hmm APIs. These are hold overs from the
past with no users, or APIs that existed only to manage cross tree
conflicts. There are still a few more of these cleanups that didn't
make the merge window cut off.
- Improve some core mm APIs:
- export alloc_pages_vma() for driver use
- refactor into devm_request_free_mem_region() to manage
DEVICE_PRIVATE resource reservations
- refactor duplicative driver code into the core dev_pagemap
struct
- Remove hmm wrappers of improved core mm APIs, instead have drivers
use the simplified API directly
- Remove DEVICE_PUBLIC
- Simplify the kconfig flow for the hmm users and core code"
* tag 'for-linus-hmm' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rdma/rdma: (42 commits)
mm: don't select MIGRATE_VMA_HELPER from HMM_MIRROR
mm: remove the HMM config option
mm: sort out the DEVICE_PRIVATE Kconfig mess
mm: simplify ZONE_DEVICE page private data
mm: remove hmm_devmem_add
mm: remove hmm_vma_alloc_locked_page
nouveau: use devm_memremap_pages directly
nouveau: use alloc_page_vma directly
PCI/P2PDMA: use the dev_pagemap internal refcount
device-dax: use the dev_pagemap internal refcount
memremap: provide an optional internal refcount in struct dev_pagemap
memremap: replace the altmap_valid field with a PGMAP_ALTMAP_VALID flag
memremap: remove the data field in struct dev_pagemap
memremap: add a migrate_to_ram method to struct dev_pagemap_ops
memremap: lift the devmap_enable manipulation into devm_memremap_pages
memremap: pass a struct dev_pagemap to ->kill and ->cleanup
memremap: move dev_pagemap callbacks into a separate structure
memremap: validate the pagemap type passed to devm_memremap_pages
mm: factor out a devm_request_free_mem_region helper
mm: export alloc_pages_vma
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