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Date:   Fri, 19 Jul 2019 12:52:39 +0200
From:   Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/Kconfig: additional help text for HMM_MIRROR option
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On Thu 2019-07-18 22:57:48, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 06:32:53PM -0700, john.hubbard@gmail.com wrote:
> > +	  HMM_MIRROR provides a way to mirror ranges of the CPU page tables
> > +	  of a process into a device page table. Here, mirror means "keep
> > +	  synchronized". Prerequisites: the device must provide the ability
> > +	  to write-protect its page tables (at PAGE_SIZE granularity), and
> > +	  must be able to recover from the resulting potential page faults.
> > +
> > +	  Select HMM_MIRROR if you have hardware that meets the above
> > +	  description. An early, partial list of such hardware is:
> > +	  an NVIDIA GPU >=3D Pascal, Mellanox IB >=3D mlx5, or an AMD GPU.
>=20
> Nevermind that the Nvidia support is stagaging and looks rather broken,
> there is no Mellanox user of this either at this point.
>=20
> But either way this has no business in a common kconfig help.  Just
> drop the fine grained details and leave it to the overview.

I disagree here. This explains what kind of hardware this is for (very
new). Partial list does not hurt, and I know that I probably don't
need to enable this.

How else am I supposed to know if my computer needs page tables
synchronized?

									Pavel
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