This v3 of HMM patchset previous discussion can be found at : http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.mm/116584 We would like to see this included especialy all preparatory patches are they are cumberstone to rebase. They do not change any behavior except a slightly increased stack consumption by adding new argument to mmu notifier callback. I believe that those added argument might be of value not only to HMM but also to other user of the mmu_notifier API. I hide the HMM core function behind staging so people understand this is not production ready but a base onto which we want to build support for all HMM features. In nutshell HMM is an API to simplify mirroring a process address space on a secondary MMU that has its own page table (and most likely a different page table format incompatible with the architecture page table). To ensure that at all time CPU and mirroring device use the same page for the same address for a process the use of the mmu notifier API is the only sane way. This is because each CPU page table update is preceded or followed by a call to the mmu notifier. Andrew if you fear this feature will not be use by anyone i can ask NVidia and/or AMD to public state their interest in it. So far HMM have been developed in a close collaboration with NVidia but at Red Hat (and NVidia is on board here) we want to make this as usefull as possible to other consumer too and not only for GPU. So any one who has hardware with its own MMU and its own page table and who wish to mirror a process address space is welcome to join the discussion and to ask for features or to discuss the API we expose to the device driver. Like i said in v2, i stripped the remote memory support from this patchset in order to make it easier to get the foundation in so that the remote memory support is easier and less painfull to work on. Changed since v2: - Hide core hmm behind staging - Fixed up all checkpatch.pl issues - Rebase on top of lastest linux-next Note that the dummy driver is not necesarily to be included i added it here so people can see an example driver. I however intend to grow the functionalities of the hmm dummy driver in order to make a test and regression suite for the core hmm. Cheers, Jérôme Glisse -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>