Hi,
I was staring at some recent ARC highmem crashes and see that kmap_atomic()
disables preemption even when page is in lowmem and call returns right away.
This seems to be true for other arches as well.
arch/arc/mm/highmem.c:
void *kmap_atomic(struct page *page)
{
int idx, cpu_idx;
unsigned long vaddr;
preempt_disable();
pagefault_disable();
if (!PageHighMem(page))
return page_address(page);
/* do the highmem foo ... */
..
}
I would really like to implement a inline fastpath for !PageHighMem(page) case and
do the highmem foo out-of-line.
Is preemption disabling a requirement of kmap_atomic() callers independent of
where page is or is it only needed when page is in highmem and can trigger page
faults or TLB Misses between kmap_atomic() and kunmap_atomic and wants protection
against reschedules etc.
-Vineet
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