Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] pmem: reduce kmap_atomic sections to the memcpys only

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On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 1:10 PM, Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> pmem_do_bvec used to kmap_atomic at the begin, and only unmap at the
> end. Things like nvdimm_clear_poison may want to do nvdimm subsystem
> bookkeeping operations that may involve taking locks or doing memory
> allocations, and we can't do that from the atomic context. Reduce the
> atomic context to just what needs it - the memcpy to/from pmem.
>
> Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/nvdimm/pmem.c | 28 +++++++++++++++++++++++-----
>  1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/nvdimm/pmem.c b/drivers/nvdimm/pmem.c
> index 571a6c7..ca038d8 100644
> --- a/drivers/nvdimm/pmem.c
> +++ b/drivers/nvdimm/pmem.c
> @@ -66,13 +66,32 @@ static void pmem_clear_poison(struct pmem_device *pmem, phys_addr_t offset,
>         invalidate_pmem(pmem->virt_addr + offset, len);
>  }
>
> +static void map_and_copy_to_pmem(void *pmem_addr, struct page *page,
> +               unsigned int off, unsigned int len)
> +{
> +       void *mem = kmap_atomic(page);
> +
> +       memcpy_to_pmem(pmem_addr, mem + off, len);
> +       kunmap_atomic(mem);
> +}
> +
> +static int map_and_copy_from_pmem(struct page *page, unsigned int off,
> +               void *pmem_addr, unsigned int len)
> +{
> +       int rc;
> +       void *mem = kmap_atomic(page);
> +
> +       rc = memcpy_from_pmem(mem + off, pmem_addr, len);
> +       kunmap_atomic(mem);
> +       return rc;
> +}

Let's just name these write_pmem() and read_pmem() respectively.
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