The patch titled Subject: mm-highmem-add-notes-about-conversions-from-kmap_atomic-v3 has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch. Its filename is mm-highmem-add-notes-about-conversions-from-kmap_atomic-v3.patch This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/mm-highmem-add-notes-about-conversions-from-kmap_atomic-v3.patch This patch will later appear in the mm-unstable branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next via the mm-everything branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm and is updated there every 2-3 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: "Fabio M. De Francesco" <fmdefrancesco@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm-highmem-add-notes-about-conversions-from-kmap_atomic-v3 Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2023 13:39:45 +0100 merge two sentences into one, per Bagas Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230119123945.10471-1-fmdefrancesco@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Fabio M. De Francesco <fmdefrancesco@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- --- a/Documentation/mm/highmem.rst~mm-highmem-add-notes-about-conversions-from-kmap_atomic-v3 +++ a/Documentation/mm/highmem.rst @@ -57,8 +57,8 @@ list shows them in order of preference o It can be invoked from any context (including interrupts) but the mappings can only be used in the context which acquired them. - This function should always be used. kmap_atomic() and kmap() have been - deprecated. + This function should always be used, whereas kmap_atomic() and kmap() have + been deprecated. These mappings are thread-local and CPU-local, meaning that the mapping can only be accessed from within this thread and the thread is bound to the _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from fmdefrancesco@xxxxxxxxx are mm-highmem-add-notes-about-conversions-from-kmap_atomic.patch mm-highmem-add-notes-about-conversions-from-kmap_atomic-v3.patch