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authorMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>2017-09-29 05:24:10 -0400
committerMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>2017-09-29 05:24:10 -0400
commitcf09e3c904bf424f8b6a8203958e09bf7d9bcbc0 (patch)
tree5e9936b3de36aa222b52a9bca366a43d98730ffd /include/linux/migrate_mode.h
parentd5426f4c2ebac8cf05de43988c3fccddbee13d28 (diff)
parente19b205be43d11bff638cad4487008c48d21c103 (diff)
Merge tag 'v4.14-rc2' into patchwork
Linux 4.14-rc2 * tag 'v4.14-rc2': (12066 commits) Linux 4.14-rc2 tpm: ibmvtpm: simplify crq initialization and document crq format tpm: replace msleep() with usleep_range() in TPM 1.2/2.0 generic drivers Documentation: tpm: add powered-while-suspended binding documentation tpm: tpm_crb: constify acpi_device_id. tpm: vtpm: constify vio_device_id security: fix description of values returned by cap_inode_need_killpriv x86/asm: Fix inline asm call constraints for Clang objtool: Handle another GCC stack pointer adjustment bug inet: fix improper empty comparison net: use inet6_rcv_saddr to compare sockets net: set tb->fast_sk_family net: orphan frags on stand-alone ptype in dev_queue_xmit_nit MAINTAINERS: update git tree locations for ieee802154 subsystem SMB3: Don't ignore O_SYNC/O_DSYNC and O_DIRECT flags SMB3: handle new statx fields arch: remove unused *_segments() macros/functions parisc: Unbreak bootloader due to gcc-7 optimizations parisc: Reintroduce option to gzip-compress the kernel apparmor: fix apparmorfs DAC access permissions ...
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/migrate_mode.h')
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diff --git a/include/linux/migrate_mode.h b/include/linux/migrate_mode.h
index ebf3d89a3919..bdf66af9b937 100644
--- a/include/linux/migrate_mode.h
+++ b/include/linux/migrate_mode.h
@@ -6,11 +6,16 @@
* on most operations but not ->writepage as the potential stall time
* is too significant
* MIGRATE_SYNC will block when migrating pages
+ * MIGRATE_SYNC_NO_COPY will block when migrating pages but will not copy pages
+ * with the CPU. Instead, page copy happens outside the migratepage()
+ * callback and is likely using a DMA engine. See migrate_vma() and HMM
+ * (mm/hmm.c) for users of this mode.
*/
enum migrate_mode {
MIGRATE_ASYNC,
MIGRATE_SYNC_LIGHT,
MIGRATE_SYNC,
+ MIGRATE_SYNC_NO_COPY,
};
#endif /* MIGRATE_MODE_H_INCLUDED */