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2019 Jul 30
1
[PATCH 07/13] mm: remove the page_shift member from struct hmm_range
...the driver isn't set up to do that right now.
> The best API for mlx4 would of course be to pass a biovec-style
> variable length structure that hmm_fault could fill out, but that would
> be a major restructure.
It would work, but the driver has to expand that into a page list
right awayhow.
We can't even dma map the biovec with today's dma API as it needs the
ability to remap on a page granularity.
Jason
2019 Jul 30
2
[PATCH 07/13] mm: remove the page_shift member from struct hmm_range
On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 08:51:57AM +0300, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> All users pass PAGE_SIZE here, and if we wanted to support single
> entries for huge pages we should really just add a HMM_FAULT_HUGEPAGE
> flag instead that uses the huge page size instead of having the
> caller calculate that size once, just for the hmm code to verify it.
I suspect this was added for the ODP