[PATCH v8 3/7] mm, devm_memremap_pages: Fix shutdown handling

[Dan Williams]

On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 2:34 PM Logan Gunthorpe <logang at deltatee.com> wrote:
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> On 2018-11-30 3:28 p.m., Dan Williams wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 2:19 PM Logan Gunthorpe <logang at deltatee.com> wrote:
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> >> Hey,
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> >> On 2018-11-29 11:51 a.m., Dan Williams wrote:
> >>> Got it, let me see how bad moving arch_remove_memory() turns out,
> >>> sounds like a decent approach to coordinate multiple users of a single
> >>> ref.
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> >> I've put together a patch set[1] that fixes all the users of
> >> devm_memremap_pages() without moving arch_remove_memory(). It's pretty
> >> clean except for the p2pdma case which is fairly tricky but I don't
> >> think there's an easy way around that.
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> > The solution I'm trying is to introduce a devm_memremap_pages_remove()
> > that each user can call after they have called percpu_ref_exit(), it's
> > just crashing for me currently...
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> Ok, that's probably less of a clean up for other users, but sounds like
> it would be less tricky for p2pdma. I'd have to create a list of all
> pgmaps, but that's not so hard and doesn't create any nasty races to
> consider like my current solution.
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> >> If you come up with a better solution that's great, otherwise let me
> >> know and I'll do some clean up and more testing and send this set to the
> >> lists. Though, we might need to wait for your patch to land before we
> >> can properly send the fix to it (the first patch in my series)...
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> > I'd say go ahead and send it. We can fix p2pdma as a follow-on. Send
> > it to Andrew as a patch relative to the current -next tree.
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> Ok, though, how do I reference the current patch in Andrew's tree? Or
> does it matter?

I would just let Andrew know that this applies incrementally to
"mm-hmm-mark-hmm_devmem_add-add_resource-export_symbol_gpl.patch" in
his tree. You can't specify Fixes: tags for pending patches in -mm.
Andrew may choose to squash the change into the existing patch, which
may be the best outcome for not exposing a bisect regression point for
p2pdma.