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From: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: "Fabio M. De Francesco" <fmdefrancesco@gmail.com>,
	Evgeniy Dushistov <dushistov@mail.ru>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] fs/ufs: Replace kmap() with kmap_local_page()
Date: Mon, 16 May 2022 12:53:54 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YoKr0rUEA6q2wYs4@iweiny-desk3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YoJl+lh0QELbv/TL@casper.infradead.org>

On Mon, May 16, 2022 at 03:55:54PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Mon, May 16, 2022 at 12:19:25PM +0200, Fabio M. De Francesco wrote:
> > The use of kmap() is being deprecated in favor of kmap_local_page(). With
> > kmap_local_page(), the mapping is per thread, CPU local and not globally
> > visible.
> > 
> > The usage of kmap_local_page() in fs/ufs is pre-thread, therefore replace
> > kmap() / kunmap() calls with kmap_local_page() / kunmap_local().
> > 
> > kunmap_local() requires the mapping address, so return that address from
> > ufs_get_page() to be used in ufs_put_page().
> > 
> > These changes are essentially ported from fs/ext2 and are largely based on
> > commit 782b76d7abdf ("fs/ext2: Replace kmap() with kmap_local_page()").
> > 
> > Suggested-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Fabio M. De Francesco <fmdefrancesco@gmail.com>
> 
> Have you done more than compile-tested this?  I'd like to know that it's
> been tested on a machine with HIGHMEM enabled (in a VM, presumably).
> UFS doesn't get a lot of testing, and it'd be annoying to put out a
> patch that breaks the kmap_local() rules.

I'm not against trying to test.  But did you see a place which might break
the kmap_local() rules?

Ira

  reply	other threads:[~2022-05-16 20:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-05-16 10:19 [PATCH v3] fs/ufs: Replace kmap() with kmap_local_page() Fabio M. De Francesco
2022-05-16 14:55 ` Matthew Wilcox
2022-05-16 19:53   ` Ira Weiny [this message]
2022-05-16 21:59   ` Fabio M. De Francesco
2022-05-25 15:12   ` Ira Weiny
2022-08-02  7:06   ` Fabio M. De Francesco
2022-08-03 19:04     ` Fabio M. De Francesco

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