Re: [PATCH 0/4] Remove get_kernel_pages()

Sumit Garg
2022-10-03T09:25:27Z

Hi Ira,

On Sun, 2 Oct 2022 at 05:53, <ira.weiny@intel.com> wrote:
>
> From: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
>
> get_kernel_pages() only had one caller [shm_get_kernel_pages()] which did not
> need the functionality it provided. Furthermore, it called kmap_to_page()
> which we are looking to removed.
>
> Alter shm_get_kernel_pages() to no longer call get_kernel_pages() and remove
> get_kernel_pages(). Along the way it was noted that shm_get_kernel_pages()
> does not have any need to support vmalloc'ed addresses either. Remove that
> functionality to clean up the logic.
>
> This series also fixes and uses is_kmap_addr().

From the above description, I am failing to see the motivation behind
this change. Can you elaborate here?

Also, since you are targeting to remove kmap_to_page(), is there any
alternative way to support highmem for future TEE bus drivers? As I
can see higmem being enabled for multiple Arm defconfigs [1] which can
also support TEE (an example which already does it:
arch/arm/configs/imx_v6_v7_defconfig).

[1] git grep CONFIG_HIGHMEM arch/arm/

-Sumit

>
> Ira Weiny (4):
> highmem: Enhance is_kmap_addr() to check kmap_local_page() mappings
> tee: Remove vmalloc page support
> tee: Remove call to get_kernel_pages()
> mm: Remove get_kernel_pages()
>
> drivers/tee/tee_shm.c | 41 ++++++++++++--------------------
> include/linux/highmem-internal.h | 5 +++-
> include/linux/mm.h | 2 --
> mm/swap.c | 30 -----------------------
> 4 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 59 deletions(-)
>
>
> base-commit: 274d7803837da78dfc911bcda0d593412676fc20
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> 2.37.2
>