Re: [PATCH 00/13] mmu_notifier kill invalidate_page callback

From	Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH 00/13] mmu_notifier kill invalidate_page callback
Date	2017-08-30 03:00 +0200
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On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 05:11:24PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 4:54 PM, Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > Note this is barely tested. I intend to do more testing of next few days
> > but i do not have access to all hardware that make use of the mmu_notifier
> > API.
> 
> Thanks for doing this.
> 
> > First 2 patches convert existing call of mmu_notifier_invalidate_page()
> > to mmu_notifier_invalidate_range() and bracket those call with call to
> > mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start()/end().
> 
> Ok, those two patches are a bit more complex than I was hoping for,
> but not *too* bad.
> 
> And the final end result certainly looks nice:
> 
> >  16 files changed, 74 insertions(+), 214 deletions(-)
> 
> Yeah, removing all those invalidate_page() notifiers certainly makes
> for a nice patch.
> 
> And I actually think you missed some more lines that can now be
> removed: kvm_arch_mmu_notifier_invalidate_page() should no longer be
> needed either, so you can remove all of those too (most of them are
> empty inline functions, but x86 has one that actually does something.
> 
> So there's an added 30 or so dead lines that should be removed in the
> kvm patch, I think.

Yes i missed that. I will wait for people to test and for result of my
own test before reposting if need be, otherwise i will post as separate
patch.

> 
> But from a _very_ quick read-through this looks fine. But it obviously
> needs testing.
> 
> People - *especially* the people who saw issues under KVM - can you
> try out Jérôme's patch-series? I aded some people to the cc, the full
> series is on lkml. Jérôme - do you have a git branch for people to
> test that they could easily pull and try out?

https://cgit.freedesktop.org/~glisse/linux mmu-notifier branch
git://people.freedesktop.org/~glisse/linux

(Sorry if that tree is bit big it has a lot of dead thing i need
 to push a clean and slim one)

Jérôme

Thread

[PATCH 00/13] mmu_notifier kill invalidate_page callback Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> - 2017-08-30 02:00 +0200
  [PATCH 04/13] drm/amdgpu: update to new mmu_notifier semantic Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> - 2017-08-30 02:00 +0200
  [PATCH 07/13] iommu/amd: update to new mmu_notifier semantic Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> - 2017-08-30 02:00 +0200
  [PATCH 09/13] misc/mic/scif: update to new mmu_notifier semantic Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> - 2017-08-30 02:00 +0200
  [PATCH 06/13] IB/hfi1: update to new mmu_notifier semantic Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> - 2017-08-30 02:00 +0200
    RE: [PATCH 06/13] IB/hfi1: update to new mmu_notifier semantic "Arumugam, Kamenee" <kamenee.arumugam@intel.com> - 2017-09-06 16:10 +0200
  [PATCH 03/13] powerpc/powernv: update to new mmu_notifier semantic Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> - 2017-08-30 02:00 +0200
  [PATCH 02/13] mm/rmap: update to new mmu_notifier semantic Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> - 2017-08-30 02:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 02/13] mm/rmap: update to new mmu_notifier semantic Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com> - 2017-08-30 04:50 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 02/13] mm/rmap: update to new mmu_notifier semantic Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> - 2017-08-30 05:00 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 02/13] mm/rmap: update to new mmu_notifier semantic Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com> - 2017-08-30 05:20 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 02/13] mm/rmap: update to new mmu_notifier semantic Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com> - 2017-08-30 05:20 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 02/13] mm/rmap: update to new mmu_notifier semantic Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> - 2017-08-30 19:30 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 02/13] mm/rmap: update to new mmu_notifier semantic Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com> - 2017-08-30 20:10 +0200
          Re: [PATCH 02/13] mm/rmap: update to new mmu_notifier semantic Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> - 2017-08-30 23:30 +0200
            Re: [PATCH 02/13] mm/rmap: update to new mmu_notifier semantic Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com> - 2017-08-31 01:30 +0200
              Re: [PATCH 02/13] mm/rmap: update to new mmu_notifier semantic Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> - 2017-08-31 02:50 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 02/13] mm/rmap: update to new mmu_notifier semantic Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> - 2017-08-31 19:20 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 02/13] mm/rmap: update to new mmu_notifier semantic Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com> - 2017-08-31 21:20 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 02/13] mm/rmap: update to new mmu_notifier semantic Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> - 2017-08-30 20:30 +0200
          Re: [PATCH 02/13] mm/rmap: update to new mmu_notifier semantic Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com> - 2017-08-30 20:50 +0200
            Re: [PATCH 02/13] mm/rmap: update to new mmu_notifier semantic Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> - 2017-08-30 22:50 +0200
              Re: [PATCH 02/13] mm/rmap: update to new mmu_notifier semantic Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> - 2017-08-31 00:20 +0200
            Re: [PATCH 02/13] mm/rmap: update to new mmu_notifier semantic Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> - 2017-08-30 23:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 02/13] mm/rmap: update to new mmu_notifier semantic Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> - 2017-08-30 19:00 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 02/13] mm/rmap: update to new mmu_notifier semantic Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> - 2017-08-30 20:00 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 02/13] mm/rmap: update to new mmu_notifier semantic Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2017-08-31 00:00 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 02/13] mm/rmap: update to new mmu_notifier semantic Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> - 2017-08-31 01:10 +0200
          Re: [PATCH 02/13] mm/rmap: update to new mmu_notifier semantic Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> - 2017-08-31 20:30 +0200
            Re: [PATCH 02/13] mm/rmap: update to new mmu_notifier semantic Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2017-08-31 21:50 +0200
  [PATCH 05/13] IB/umem: update to new mmu_notifier semantic Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> - 2017-08-30 02:00 +0200
  [PATCH 11/13] xen/gntdev: update to new mmu_notifier semantic Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> - 2017-08-30 02:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 11/13] xen/gntdev: update to new mmu_notifier semantic Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> - 2017-08-30 21:40 +0200
  [PATCH 01/13] dax: update to new mmu_notifier semantic Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> - 2017-08-30 02:00 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 00/13] mmu_notifier kill invalidate_page callback Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2017-08-30 02:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 00/13] mmu_notifier kill invalidate_page callback Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> - 2017-08-30 03:00 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 00/13] mmu_notifier kill invalidate_page callback Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> - 2017-08-30 10:50 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 00/13] mmu_notifier kill invalidate_page callback Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl> - 2017-08-30 17:00 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 00/13] mmu_notifier kill invalidate_page callback Jeff Cook <jeff@jeffcook.io> - 2017-09-01 16:50 +0200

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