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author | Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> | 2017-09-08 16:12:21 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2017-09-08 18:26:46 -0700 |
commit | 8315ada7f095bfa2cae0cd1e915b95bf6226897d (patch) | |
tree | 38135930f42e358280a7d78c57a455ebd12c89ca /kernel/padata.c | |
parent | a5430dda8a3a1cdd532e37270e6f36436241b6e7 (diff) | |
download | linux-8315ada7f095bfa2cae0cd1e915b95bf6226897d.tar.bz2 |
mm/migrate: allow migrate_vma() to alloc new page on empty entry
This allows callers of migrate_vma() to allocate new page for empty CPU
page table entry (pte_none or back by zero page). This is only for
anonymous memory and it won't allow new page to be instanced if the
userfaultfd is armed.
This is useful to device driver that want to migrate a range of virtual
address and would rather allocate new memory than having to fault later
on.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170817000548.32038-18-jglisse@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: David Nellans <dnellans@nvidia.com>
Cc: Evgeny Baskakov <ebaskakov@nvidia.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mark Hairgrove <mhairgrove@nvidia.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Sherry Cheung <SCheung@nvidia.com>
Cc: Subhash Gutti <sgutti@nvidia.com>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>
Cc: Bob Liu <liubo95@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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