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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 4/4] Documentation/vm: Rework "Temporary Virtual Mappings" section
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On martedì 26 aprile 2022 13:47:34 CEST Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
>
> Hmm. It is thread-local in the end. There are slots 0 … KM_MAX_IDX for
> the mappings. Slot 0 for task A can be different from slot 0 for task B
> while both run on CPU0. So the same address, that is returned from
> kmap_local(), will point to a different page for both tasks. Both tasks
> can't be migrated to another CPU while the mapping is active.
> "CPU local" sounds like something that is same to everyone on the same
> CPU which is what this_cpu_read() for instance does.
>

OK, I agree with you :)

I just got three notices from Greg K-H stating that he has applied three of
my driver / Android patches. The patches are some conversions from kmap()
and / or kmap_atomic() to kmap_local_page() (or wrappers around it):

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220425175754.8180-4-fmdefrancesco@gmail.com/
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220425175754.8180-3-fmdefrancesco@gmail.com/
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220425175754.8180-2-fmdefrancesco@gmail.com/

I had forgotten that I wrote the following sentence in all three commit
messages: "[] With kmap_local_page(), the mapping is per thread, CPU local
and not globally visible. []"

Therefore, I'll add "thread-local" or "per thread". I probably like your
wording more than mine: "thread-local" is more suitable.

For consistency (again) I like the other change you proposed, which is to
add "deprecated!" also in kunmap_atomic(), exactly as it is already in
kmap_atomic() kernel-docs.

However, I will wait one more day before sending v3, in case there are
other people who want to suggest further changes.

If I remember correctly, I'm overlooking nothing else. Do I overlook
something?

Thanks for your help,

Fabio


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