Re: [PATCH] Fix kunmap() argument in sg_miter_stop

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>]

On Mon, 17 Nov 2008, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:

> Pass the struct page * to kunmap, not the vaddr of the mapping itself.
> 
> Pointed out by Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
> ---
> drivers/xen/balloon.c |    2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> ===================================================================
> --- a/drivers/xen/balloon.c
> +++ b/drivers/xen/balloon.c
> @@ -120,7 +120,7 @@
> 	if (PageHighMem(page)) {
> 		void *v = kmap(page);
> 		clear_page(v);
> -		kunmap(v);
> +		kunmap(page);
> 	} else {
> 		void *v = page_address(page);
> 		clear_page(v);

Well, quite frankly, the whole thing looks like crud.

First off, 'kmap/kunmap' work on regular pages too. So if you're highmem 
aware, you should just do

	void *v = kmap(page);
	clear_page(v);
	kunmap(page);

and be done with it. 

Secondly, we actually have a function called "clear_highpage()" that does 
this, except it uses kmap_atomic(page, KM_USER0). Which is _probably 
better anyway, but I didn't check if there is some magical reason why it 
wouldn't work.

			Linus