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From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
To: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	Steve Capper <steve.capper@arm.com>,
	David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>, Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>,
	Hsin-Yi Wang <hsinyi@chromium.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 (RESEND) 3/3] arm64/mm: Enable vmem_altmap support for vmemmap mappings
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2020 15:09:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200702140906.GG22241@gaia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1592442930-9380-4-git-send-email-anshuman.khandual@arm.com>

On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 06:45:30AM +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> Device memory ranges when getting hot added into ZONE_DEVICE, might require
> their vmemmap mapping's backing memory to be allocated from their own range
> instead of consuming system memory. This prevents large system memory usage
> for potentially large device memory ranges. Device driver communicates this
> request via vmem_altmap structure. Architecture needs to take this request
> into account while creating and tearing down vemmmap mappings.
> 
> This enables vmem_altmap support in vmemmap_populate() and vmemmap_free()
> which includes vmemmap_populate_basepages() used for ARM64_16K_PAGES and
> ARM64_64K_PAGES configs.
> 
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
> Cc: Steve Capper <steve.capper@arm.com>
> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
> Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
> Cc: Hsin-Yi Wang <hsinyi@chromium.org>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Tested-by: Jia He <justin.he@arm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>

This looks fine to me:

Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>

I presume this series would go into mainline via the mm tree as it
touches several architectures.


  reply	other threads:[~2020-07-02 14:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-18  1:15 [PATCH V3 (RESEND) 0/3] arm64: Enable vmemmap mapping from device memory Anshuman Khandual
2020-06-18  1:15 ` [PATCH V3 (RESEND) 1/3] mm/sparsemem: Enable vmem_altmap support in vmemmap_populate_basepages() Anshuman Khandual
2020-07-02 14:03   ` Catalin Marinas
2020-06-18  1:15 ` [PATCH V3 (RESEND) 2/3] mm/sparsemem: Enable vmem_altmap support in vmemmap_alloc_block_buf() Anshuman Khandual
2020-07-02 14:07   ` Catalin Marinas
2020-07-03  6:32     ` Anshuman Khandual
2020-07-03 10:43     ` Michael Ellerman
2020-06-18  1:15 ` [PATCH V3 (RESEND) 3/3] arm64/mm: Enable vmem_altmap support for vmemmap mappings Anshuman Khandual
2020-07-02 14:09   ` Catalin Marinas [this message]
2020-06-18  8:56 ` [PATCH V3 (RESEND) 0/3] arm64: Enable vmemmap mapping from device memory Mike Rapoport
2020-06-19  1:34   ` Anshuman Khandual
2020-06-23  7:39 ` Jia He

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