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* [PATCH V3 0/3] Begin converting kmap calls to kmap_local_page()
@ 2020-12-10 17:18 ira.weiny
  2020-12-10 17:18 ` [PATCH V3 1/2] mm/highmem: Remove deprecated kmap_atomic ira.weiny
  2020-12-10 17:18 ` [PATCH V3 2/2] mm/highmem: Lift memcpy_[to|from]_page to core ira.weiny
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: ira.weiny @ 2020-12-10 17:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Thomas Gleixner, Andrew Morton
  Cc: Ira Weiny, Joonas Lahtinen, Matthew Wilcox, Christoph Hellwig,
	Eric Biggers, Dan Williams, Al Viro, linux-kernel, linux-fsdevel

From: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>

Changes from V2[1]:
	Update this cover letter
	Update commit messages
	From Matthew Wilcox
		Put functions in highmem.h rather than pagemap.h
	Investigate 0-day build errors.
		AFAICT the patches were applied to the wrong tree and caused
		build errors.

There are many places in the kernel where kmap is used for a simple memory
operation like memcpy, memset, or memmove and then the page is unmapped.

This kmap/mem*/kunmap pattern is mixed between kmap and kmap_atomic uses.  All
of them could use kmap_atomic() which is faster.  However, kmap_atomic() is
being deprecated in favor of kmap_local_page().

Use kmap_local_page() in the existing page operations.  Lift
memcpy_[to|from]_page to highmem.h.  Remove memzero_page() and use zero_user()
instead.  Add memcpy_page(), memmove_page(), and memset_page() to be used in
future patches.  Finally, add BUG_ON()s to check for any miss use of the API
and prevent data corruption in the same way zero_user() does.

This is V3 to get into 5.11 so that we can start to convert all the various
subsystems in 5.12.[2]

These are based on tip/core/mm.  I'm sending to Andrew and Thomas but I'm
expecting these to go through tip/core/mm via Thomas if that is ok with Andrew.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20201207225703.2033611-1-ira.weiny@intel.com/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20201204160504.GH1563847@iweiny-DESK2.sc.intel.com/


Ira Weiny (2):
  mm/highmem: Remove deprecated kmap_atomic
  mm/highmem: Lift memcpy_[to|from]_page to core

 include/linux/highmem.h | 81 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
 lib/iov_iter.c          | 26 ++-----------
 2 files changed, 70 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-)

-- 
2.28.0.rc0.12.gb6a658bd00c9


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