Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 14 Aug 2013 16:36:44 +0000 | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: [RFC 0/3] Pin page control subsystem |
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On Wed, 14 Aug 2013, Minchan Kim wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 04:21:30PM +0000, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > On Tue, 13 Aug 2013, Minchan Kim wrote: > > > > > VM sometime want to migrate and/or reclaim pages for CMA, memory-hotplug, > > > THP and so on but at the moment, it could handle only userspace pages > > > so if above example subsystem have pinned a some page in a range VM want > > > to migrate, migration is failed so above exmaple couldn't work well. > > > > Dont we have the mmu_notifiers that could help in that case? You could get > > a callback which could prepare the pages for migration? > > Now I'm not familiar with mmu_notifier so please could you elaborate it > a bit for me to dive into that?
Add a notifier callback for unpinning pages to the mmu notifier subsystem and then your drivers could register with the subsystem to get notifications when migration needs to occur etc.
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