Re: [RFC PATCH v2 2/2] RDMA/rxe: Support RDMA Atomic Write operation

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On Wed, Jan 19, 2022 at 08:36:35AM -0400, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 19, 2022 at 01:54:32AM +0000, lizhijian@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

[snip]

> > 
> > IMHO, for the rxe, rxe_mr_init_user() will call get_user_page() to pin iova first, and then
> > the page address will be recorded into mr->cur_map_set->map[x]. So that when we want
> > to reference iova's kernel address, we can call iova_to_vaddr() where it will retrieve its kernel
> > address by travel the mr->cur_map_set->map[x].
> 
> That flow needs a kmap
> 
> > Do you mean we should retrieve iova's page first, and the reference the kernel address by
> > kmap(), sorry for my stupid question ?
> 
> Going from struct page to something the kernel can can touch requires
> kmap

kmap() the call is being deprecated.  Please use kmap_local_page() if possible.

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20211210232404.4098157-1-ira.weiny@xxxxxxxxx/

Thanks,
Ira




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