mm/migrate: new memory migration helper for use with device memory
This patch add a new memory migration helpers, which migrate memory backing a range of virtual address of a process to different memory (which can be allocated through special allocator). It differs from numa migration by working on a range of virtual address and thus by doing migration in chunk that can be large enough to use DMA engine or special copy offloading engine. Expected users are any one with heterogeneous memory where different memory have different characteristics (latency, bandwidth, ...). As an example IBM platform with CAPI bus can make use of this feature to migrate between regular memory and CAPI device memory. New CPU architecture with a pool of high performance memory not manage as cache but presented as regular memory (while being faster and with lower latency than DDR) will also be prime user of this patch. Migration to private device memory will be useful for device that have large pool of such like GPU, NVidia plans to use HMM for that. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170817000548.32038-15-jglisse@redhat.comSigned-off-by: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Evgeny Baskakov <ebaskakov@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Mark Hairgrove <mhairgrove@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Sherry Cheung <SCheung@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Subhash Gutti <sgutti@nvidia.com> Cc: Aneesh Kumar <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: David Nellans <dnellans@nvidia.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com> Cc: Bob Liu <liubo95@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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