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Re: [RFC PATCH 4/7] mm: register_dev_memmap()

From Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [RFC PATCH 4/7] mm: register_dev_memmap()
Date 2015-08-15 11:10 +0200
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>  #endif /* _LINUX_KMAP_PFN_H */
> diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
> index 8a4f24d7fdb0..07152a54b841 100644
> --- a/include/linux/mm.h
> +++ b/include/linux/mm.h
> @@ -939,6 +939,7 @@ typedef struct {
>   * PFN_SG_CHAIN - pfn is a pointer to the next scatterlist entry
>   * PFN_SG_LAST - pfn references a page and is the last scatterlist entry
>   * PFN_DEV - pfn is not covered by system memmap
> + * PFN_MAP - pfn is covered by a device specific memmap
>   */
>  enum {
>  	PFN_MASK = (1UL << PAGE_SHIFT) - 1,
> @@ -949,6 +950,7 @@ enum {
>  #else
>  	PFN_DEV = 0,
>  #endif
> +	PFN_MAP = (1UL << 3),
>  };
>  
>  static inline __pfn_t pfn_to_pfn_t(unsigned long pfn, unsigned long flags)
> @@ -965,7 +967,7 @@ static inline __pfn_t phys_to_pfn_t(dma_addr_t addr, unsigned long flags)
>  
>  static inline bool __pfn_t_has_page(__pfn_t pfn)
>  {
> -	return (pfn.val & PFN_DEV) == 0;
> +	return (pfn.val & PFN_DEV) == 0 || (pfn.val & PFN_MAP) == PFN_MAP;

Shouldn't we simply not set the PFN_DEV flag instead of needing another
one to cancel it out?

I also wonder if it might be better to not require the __pfn_t and
SG rework patches before this series.
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[RFC PATCH 0/7] 'struct page' driver for persistent memory Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2015-08-13 06:00 +0200
  [RFC PATCH 2/7] x86, mm: introduce struct vmem_altmap Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2015-08-13 06:00 +0200
  [RFC PATCH 5/7] libnvdimm,  e820: make CONFIG_X86_PMEM_LEGACY a tristate option Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2015-08-13 06:00 +0200
    Re: [RFC PATCH 5/7] libnvdimm, e820: make CONFIG_X86_PMEM_LEGACY a  tristate option Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> - 2015-08-15 11:10 +0200
      Re: [RFC PATCH 5/7] libnvdimm, e820: make CONFIG_X86_PMEM_LEGACY a  tristate option Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2015-08-15 17:30 +0200
        Re: [RFC PATCH 5/7] libnvdimm, e820: make CONFIG_X86_PMEM_LEGACY a  tristate option Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> - 2015-08-15 18:00 +0200
          Re: [RFC PATCH 5/7] libnvdimm, e820: make CONFIG_X86_PMEM_LEGACY a  tristate option Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2015-08-15 18:10 +0200
            Re: [RFC PATCH 5/7] libnvdimm, e820: make CONFIG_X86_PMEM_LEGACY a  tristate option Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> - 2015-08-17 17:10 +0200
              Re: [RFC PATCH 5/7] libnvdimm, e820: make CONFIG_X86_PMEM_LEGACY a  tristate option Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2015-08-17 17:50 +0200
  [RFC PATCH 3/7] x86, mm: arch_add_dev_memory() Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2015-08-13 06:00 +0200
  [RFC PATCH 7/7] libnvdimm, pmem: 'struct page' for pmem Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2015-08-13 06:00 +0200
  [RFC PATCH 4/7] mm: register_dev_memmap() Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2015-08-13 06:00 +0200
    Re: [RFC PATCH 4/7] mm: register_dev_memmap() Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> - 2015-08-15 11:10 +0200
  [RFC PATCH 6/7] libnvdimm,  pfn: 'struct page' provider infrastructure Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2015-08-13 06:00 +0200
  Re: [RFC PATCH 0/7] 'struct page' driver for persistent memory Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> - 2015-08-15 11:10 +0200

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