Re: add a not device managed memremap_pages v2

From: Jason Gunthorpe
Date: Fri Aug 16 2019 - 08:34:07 EST


On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 08:54:30AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Hi Dan and Jason,
>
> Bharata has been working on secure page management for kvmppc guests,
> and one I thing I noticed is that he had to fake up a struct device
> just so that it could be passed to the devm_memremap_pages
> instrastructure for device private memory.
>
> This series adds non-device managed versions of the
> devm_request_free_mem_region and devm_memremap_pages functions for
> his use case.
>
> Changes since v1:
> - don't overload devm_request_free_mem_region
> - export the memremap_pages and munmap_pages as kvmppc can be a module

What tree do we want this to go through? Dan are you running a pgmap
tree still? Do we know of any conflicts?

Thanks,
Jason