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Device drivers can use the migrate_vma family of functions to migrate existing private anonymous mappings to device private pages. These pages are backed by memory on the device with drivers being responsible for copying data to and from device memory. Device private pages are freed via the pgmap->page_free() callback when they are unmapped and their refcount drops to zero. Alternatively they may be freed indirectly via migration back to CPU memory in response to a pgmap->migrate_to_ram() callback called whenever the CPU accesses an address mapped to a device private page. In other words drivers cannot control the lifetime of data allocated on the devices and must wait until these pages are freed from userspace. This causes issues when memory needs to reclaimed on the device, either because the device is going away due to a ->release() callback or because another user needs to use the memory. Drivers could use the existing migrate_vma functions to migrate data off the device. However this would require them to track the mappings of each page which is both complicated and not always possible. Instead drivers need to be able to migrate device pages directly so they can free up device memory. To allow that this patch introduces the migrate_device family of functions which are functionally similar to migrate_vma but which skips the initial lookup based on mapping. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/868116aab70b0c8ee467d62498bb2cf0ef907295.1664366292.git-series.apopple@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com> Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@nvidia.com> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com> Cc: Alex Sierra <alex.sierra@amd.com> Cc: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com> Cc: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Felix Kuehling <Felix.Kuehling@amd.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Cc: Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> |
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.