On Mon, May 16, 2022 at 03:55:54PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Mon, May 16, 2022 at 12:19:25PM +0200, Fabio M. De Francesco wrote:
> > The use of kmap() is being deprecated in favor of kmap_local_page(). With
> > kmap_local_page(), the mapping is per thread, CPU local and not globally
> > visible.
> >
> > The usage of kmap_local_page() in fs/ufs is pre-thread, therefore replace
> > kmap() / kunmap() calls with kmap_local_page() / kunmap_local().
> >
> > kunmap_local() requires the mapping address, so return that address from
> > ufs_get_page() to be used in ufs_put_page().
> >
> > These changes are essentially ported from fs/ext2 and are largely based on
> > commit 782b76d7abdf ("fs/ext2: Replace kmap() with kmap_local_page()").
> >
> > Suggested-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Reviewed-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Fabio M. De Francesco <fmdefrancesco@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Have you done more than compile-tested this? I'd like to know that it's
> been tested on a machine with HIGHMEM enabled (in a VM, presumably).
> UFS doesn't get a lot of testing, and it'd be annoying to put out a
> patch that breaks the kmap_local() rules.
I'm not against trying to test. But did you see a place which might break
the kmap_local() rules?
Ira
