Re: [PATCH V3 (RESEND) 0/3] arm64: Enable vmemmap mapping from device memory

On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 06:45:27AM +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote:

This series enables vmemmap backing memory allocation from device memory
ranges on arm64. But before that, it enables vmemmap_populate_basepages()
and vmemmap_alloc_block_buf() to accommodate struct vmem_altmap based
alocation requests.

This series applies on 5.8-rc1.

Pending Question:

altmap_alloc_block_buf() does not have any other remaining users in
the tree after this change. Should it be converted into a static
function and it's declaration be dropped from the header
(include/linux/mm.h). Avoided doing so because I was not sure if there
are any off-tree users or not.

Well, off-tree users probably have an active fork anyway so they could
switch to vmemmap_alloc_block_buf()...

Regardless, can you please update Documentation/vm/memory-model.rst to
keep it in sync with the code?

Changes in V3:

- Dropped comment from free_hotplug_page_range() per Robin
- Modified comment in unmap_hotplug_range() per Robin
- Enabled altmap support in vmemmap_alloc_block_buf() per Robin

Changes in V2: (https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/3/4/475)

- Rebased on latest hot-remove series (v14) adding P4D page table support

Changes in V1: (https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/1/23/12)

- Added an WARN_ON() in unmap_hotplug_range() when altmap is
  provided without the page table backing memory being freed

Changes in RFC V2: (https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/10/21/11)

- Changed the commit message on 1/2 patch per Will
- Changed the commit message on 2/2 patch as well
- Rebased on arm64 memory hot remove series (v10)

RFC V1: (https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/6/28/32)

Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Paul Walmsley <redacted>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <redacted>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <redacted>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <redacted>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <redacted>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <redacted>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Dan Williams <redacted>
Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <redacted>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org

Anshuman Khandual (3):
  mm/sparsemem: Enable vmem_altmap support in vmemmap_populate_basepages()
  mm/sparsemem: Enable vmem_altmap support in vmemmap_alloc_block_buf()
  arm64/mm: Enable vmem_altmap support for vmemmap mappings

 arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c       | 59 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
 arch/ia64/mm/discontig.c  |  2 +-
 arch/powerpc/mm/init_64.c | 10 +++----
 arch/riscv/mm/init.c      |  2 +-
 arch/x86/mm/init_64.c     | 12 ++++----
 include/linux/mm.h        |  8 ++++--
 mm/sparse-vmemmap.c       | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++-----
 7 files changed, 87 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-)

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2.20.1

-- 
Sincerely yours,
Mike.