On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 05:00:12PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 08:20:58PM +0530, Bharata B Rao wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 10:12:47AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > The kvmppc ultravisor code wants a device private memory pool that is > > > system wide and not attached to a device. Instead of faking up one > > > provide a low-level memremap_pages for it. Note that this function is > > > not exported, and doesn't have a cleanup routine associated with it to > > > discourage use from more driver like users. > > > > The kvmppc secure pages management code will be part of kvm-hv which > > can be built as module too. So it would require memremap_pages() to be > > exported. > > > > Additionally, non-dev version of the cleanup routine > > devm_memremap_pages_release() or equivalent would also be requried. > > With device being present, put_device() used to take care of this > > cleanup. > > Oh well. We can add them fairly easily if we really need to, but I > tried to avoid that. Can you try to see if this works non-modular > for you for now until we hear more feedback from Dan? Yes, this patchset works non-modular and with kvm-hv as module, it works with devm_memremap_pages_release() and release_mem_region() in the cleanup path. The cleanup path will be required in the non-modular case too for proper recovery from failures. Regards, Bharata.
