Re: [PATCH 5/6] mm/memcontrol: support MEMORY_DEVICE_PRIVATE and MEMORY_DEVICE_PUBLIC v3

From: Balbir Singh
Date: Mon Jul 17 2017 - 05:16:40 EST


On Thu, 2017-07-13 at 17:15 -0400, JÃrÃme Glisse wrote:
> HMM pages (private or public device pages) are ZONE_DEVICE page and
> thus need special handling when it comes to lru or refcount. This
> patch make sure that memcontrol properly handle those when it face
> them. Those pages are use like regular pages in a process address
> space either as anonymous page or as file back page. So from memcg
> point of view we want to handle them like regular page for now at
> least.
>
> Changed since v2:
> - s/host/public
> Changed since v1:
> - s/public/host
> - add comments explaining how device memory behave and why
>
> Signed-off-by: JÃrÃme Glisse <jglisse@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: cgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> ---

Acked-by: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@xxxxxxxxx>