Re: mm: Various preparatory patches for hmm and kfd

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On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 05:59:57PM -0400, j.glisse@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> So here is updated patchset. I believe the first patch despite Joerg
> opposition, is still a welcome change to mmput. Wether or not kfd and
> hmm could register might still be debated but i strongly believe that
> the fact that we are tie to mm_struct and the file lifespan is not tie
> to a specific mm_struct is a testimony that we should interface with
> mm_struct destruction.
> 
> The third patch have updated comment and i hope address all Linus'
> worries. The event description have been updated and i hope is clear
> enough.
> 
> The last patch also been updated and now only pass vma to various
> mmu_notifier callback. This does means that instead of calling once
> the mmu_notifier for zapping whole address range, it will be call
> once per vma. I believe that given this change only impact process
> that use vma and that by restricting ourself to existing vma the
> impact will be small and might even turn to be a win as mmu listener
> will not have to traverse whole secondary page table full of non
> existant entry but only do job on thing that migth exist in the
> secondary page table.
> 
> Hope this address any previous concern about those patches.
> 
> Cheers,
> Jérôme
> 
> 

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