To: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, "Bryan O'Sullivan" <bos@pathscale.com>,
       torvalds@osdl.org, hch@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Remapping pages mapped to userspace (was: [PATCH 10 of 20] ipath - support for userspace apps using core driver)
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From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 15:51:51 -0800
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0603161332090.21570@goblin.wat.veritas.com> (Hugh Dickins's message of "Thu, 16 Mar 2006 14:24:47 +0000 (GMT)")
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[Err, sorry about the empty mail...]

Anyway, I'd like to hijack this thread slightly, since we are close to
a subject that I've been thinking about lately, and I'd like to take
advantage of the expert's attention...

My mthca driver (drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca) supports mapping some
MMIO registers into userspace via io_remap_pfn_range() in a .mmap
method.  I think I have that pretty well under control.

However, on a hot unplug event, when the underlying PCI device is
going away, I would like to replace that mapping with a mapping (with
a mapping to the zero page?), so that userspace accesses after the
device is gone don't explode.  What's the "right" way to do that?

Presumably it would be something like zeromap_page_range(), but that's
not exported to modules.  Exporting that would be one option, but in a
way that's overkill for me: I only have a single page to deal with, so
I could also do something like

	vm_insert_page(vma, addr, ZERO_PAGE(addr));

But do I have to do anything to kill the old mapping coming from
remap_pfn_range()?  What's the exported API to do that?

I can keep a list of vmas that have registers mapped to userspace and
iterate through it on hot unplug.  The only question is what to do
with those vmas.

Thanks,
  Roland
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