Re: [PATCH v5 6/7] mm, hmm: Replace hmm_devmem_pages_create() with devm_memremap_pages()

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On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 07:22:33PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> Commit e8d513483300 "memremap: change devm_memremap_pages interface to
> use struct dev_pagemap" refactored devm_memremap_pages() to allow a
> dev_pagemap instance to be supplied. Passing in a dev_pagemap interface
> simplifies the design of pgmap type drivers in that they can rely on
> container_of() to lookup any private data associated with the given
> dev_pagemap instance.
> 
> In addition to the cleanups this also gives hmm users multi-order-radix
> improvements that arrived with commit ab1b597ee0e4 "mm,
> devm_memremap_pages: use multi-order radix for ZONE_DEVICE lookups"
> 
> As part of the conversion to the devm_memremap_pages() method of
> handling the percpu_ref relative to when pages are put, the percpu_ref
> completion needs to move to hmm_devmem_ref_exit(). See commit
> 71389703839e ("mm, zone_device: Replace {get, put}_zone_device_page...")
> for details.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
> Cc: "Jérôme Glisse" <jglisse@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Looks like a good cleanup

Acked-by: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@xxxxxxxxx>




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