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Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/10] HMM updates for 5.1
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On Tue, 19 Mar 2019 12:58:02 -0400 Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> wrote:

> > So I think I'll throw up my hands, drop them all and shall await
> > developments :(
> 
> What more do you want to see ? I can repost with the ack already given
> and the improve commit wording on some of the patch. But from user point
> of view nouveau is already upstream, ODP RDMA depends on this patchset
> and is posted and i have given link to it. amdgpu is queue up. What more
> do i need ?

I guess I can ignore linux-next for a few days.  

Yes, a resend against mainline with those various updates will be
helpful.  Please go through the various fixes which we had as well:


mm-hmm-use-reference-counting-for-hmm-struct.patch
mm-hmm-do-not-erase-snapshot-when-a-range-is-invalidated.patch
mm-hmm-improve-and-rename-hmm_vma_get_pfns-to-hmm_range_snapshot.patch
mm-hmm-improve-and-rename-hmm_vma_fault-to-hmm_range_fault.patch
mm-hmm-improve-driver-api-to-work-and-wait-over-a-range.patch
mm-hmm-improve-driver-api-to-work-and-wait-over-a-range-fix.patch
mm-hmm-improve-driver-api-to-work-and-wait-over-a-range-fix-fix.patch
mm-hmm-add-default-fault-flags-to-avoid-the-need-to-pre-fill-pfns-arrays.patch
mm-hmm-add-an-helper-function-that-fault-pages-and-map-them-to-a-device.patch
mm-hmm-support-hugetlbfs-snap-shoting-faulting-and-dma-mapping.patch
mm-hmm-allow-to-mirror-vma-of-a-file-on-a-dax-backed-filesystem.patch
mm-hmm-allow-to-mirror-vma-of-a-file-on-a-dax-backed-filesystem-fix.patch
mm-hmm-allow-to-mirror-vma-of-a-file-on-a-dax-backed-filesystem-fix-2.patch
mm-hmm-add-helpers-for-driver-to-safely-take-the-mmap_sem.patch

Also, the discussion regarding [07/10] is substantial and is ongoing so
please let's push along wth that.

What is the review/discussion status of "[PATCH 09/10] mm/hmm: allow to
mirror vma of a file on a DAX backed filesystem"?