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      kvm: rename pfn_t to kvm_pfn_t · ba049e93
      Dan Williams 提交于
      To date, we have implemented two I/O usage models for persistent memory,
      PMEM (a persistent "ram disk") and DAX (mmap persistent memory into
      userspace).  This series adds a third, DAX-GUP, that allows DAX mappings
      to be the target of direct-i/o.  It allows userspace to coordinate
      DMA/RDMA from/to persistent memory.
      
      The implementation leverages the ZONE_DEVICE mm-zone that went into
      4.3-rc1 (also discussed at kernel summit) to flag pages that are owned
      and dynamically mapped by a device driver.  The pmem driver, after
      mapping a persistent memory range into the system memmap via
      devm_memremap_pages(), arranges for DAX to distinguish pfn-only versus
      page-backed pmem-pfns via flags in the new pfn_t type.
      
      The DAX code, upon seeing a PFN_DEV+PFN_MAP flagged pfn, flags the
      resulting pte(s) inserted into the process page tables with a new
      _PAGE_DEVMAP flag.  Later, when get_user_pages() is walking ptes it keys
      off _PAGE_DEVMAP to pin the device hosting the page range active.
      Finally, get_page() and put_page() are modified to take references
      against the device driver established page mapping.
      
      Finally, this need for "struct page" for persistent memory requires
      memory capacity to store the memmap array.  Given the memmap array for a
      large pool of persistent may exhaust available DRAM introduce a
      mechanism to allocate the memmap from persistent memory.  The new
      "struct vmem_altmap *" parameter to devm_memremap_pages() enables
      arch_add_memory() to use reserved pmem capacity rather than the page
      allocator.
      
      This patch (of 18):
      
      The core has developed a need for a "pfn_t" type [1].  Move the existing
      pfn_t in KVM to kvm_pfn_t [2].
      
      [1]: https://lists.01.org/pipermail/linux-nvdimm/2015-September/002199.html
      [2]: https://lists.01.org/pipermail/linux-nvdimm/2015-September/002218.htmlSigned-off-by: NDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
      Acked-by: NChristoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
      Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      ba049e93
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