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    mm/mmu_notifier: use structure for invalidate_range_start/end callback · 5d6527a7
    Jérôme Glisse authored
    Patch series "mmu notifier contextual informations", v2.
    
    This patchset adds contextual information, why an invalidation is
    happening, to mmu notifier callback.  This is necessary for user of mmu
    notifier that wish to maintains their own data structure without having to
    add new fields to struct vm_area_struct (vma).
    
    For instance device can have they own page table that mirror the process
    address space.  When a vma is unmap (munmap() syscall) the device driver
    can free the device page table for the range.
    
    Today we do not have any information on why a mmu notifier call back is
    happening and thus device driver have to assume that it is always an
    munmap().  This is inefficient at it means that it needs to re-allocate
    device page table on next page fault and rebuild the whole device driver
    data structure for the range.
    
    Other use case beside munmap() also exist, for instance it is pointless
    for device driver to invalidate the device page ...
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