On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 05:11:24PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 4:54 PM, Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Note this is barely tested. I intend to do more testing of next few days > > but i do not have access to all hardware that make use of the mmu_notifier > > API. > > Thanks for doing this. > > > First 2 patches convert existing call of mmu_notifier_invalidate_page() > > to mmu_notifier_invalidate_range() and bracket those call with call to > > mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start()/end(). > > Ok, those two patches are a bit more complex than I was hoping for, > but not *too* bad. > > And the final end result certainly looks nice: > > > 16 files changed, 74 insertions(+), 214 deletions(-) > > Yeah, removing all those invalidate_page() notifiers certainly makes > for a nice patch. > > And I actually think you missed some more lines that can now be > removed: kvm_arch_mmu_notifier_invalidate_page() should no longer be > needed either, so you can remove all of those too (most of them are > empty inline functions, but x86 has one that actually does something. > > So there's an added 30 or so dead lines that should be removed in the > kvm patch, I think. Yes i missed that. I will wait for people to test and for result of my own test before reposting if need be, otherwise i will post as separate patch. > > But from a _very_ quick read-through this looks fine. But it obviously > needs testing. > > People - *especially* the people who saw issues under KVM - can you > try out Jérôme's patch-series? I aded some people to the cc, the full > series is on lkml. Jérôme - do you have a git branch for people to > test that they could easily pull and try out? https://cgit.freedesktop.org/~glisse/linux mmu-notifier branch git://people.freedesktop.org/~glisse/linux (Sorry if that tree is bit big it has a lot of dead thing i need to push a clean and slim one) Jérôme _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
