Re: [PATCH 21/62] net: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()

From: Alexander Duyck
Date: Mon Nov 28 2011 - 13:06:03 EST


On 11/27/2011 12:07 AM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Le dimanche 27 novembre 2011 Ã 13:27 +0800, Cong Wang a Ãcrit :
>> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c
>> index cf480b5..b194beb 100644
>> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c
>> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c
>> @@ -3878,11 +3878,9 @@ static bool e1000_clean_jumbo_rx_irq(struct e1000_adapter *adapter,
>> if (length <= copybreak &&
>> skb_tailroom(skb) >= length) {
>> u8 *vaddr;
>> - vaddr = kmap_atomic(buffer_info->page,
>> - KM_SKB_DATA_SOFTIRQ);
>> + vaddr = kmap_atomic(buffer_info->page);
>> memcpy(skb_tail_pointer(skb), vaddr, length);
>> - kunmap_atomic(vaddr,
>> - KM_SKB_DATA_SOFTIRQ);
>> + kunmap_atomic(vaddr);
>> /* re-use the page, so don't erase
>> * buffer_info->page */
>> skb_put(skb, length);
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c
>> index a855db1..8603c87 100644
>> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c
>> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c
>> @@ -1272,9 +1272,9 @@ static bool e1000_clean_rx_irq_ps(struct e1000_adapter *adapter,
>> */
>> dma_sync_single_for_cpu(&pdev->dev, ps_page->dma,
>> PAGE_SIZE, DMA_FROM_DEVICE);
>> - vaddr = kmap_atomic(ps_page->page, KM_SKB_DATA_SOFTIRQ);
>> + vaddr = kmap_atomic(ps_page->page);
>> memcpy(skb_tail_pointer(skb), vaddr, l1);
>> - kunmap_atomic(vaddr, KM_SKB_DATA_SOFTIRQ);
>> + kunmap_atomic(vaddr);
>> dma_sync_single_for_device(&pdev->dev, ps_page->dma,
>> PAGE_SIZE, DMA_FROM_DEVICE);
>>
>> @@ -1465,12 +1465,10 @@ static bool e1000_clean_jumbo_rx_irq(struct e1000_adapter *adapter,
>> if (length <= copybreak &&
>> skb_tailroom(skb) >= length) {
>> u8 *vaddr;
>> - vaddr = kmap_atomic(buffer_info->page,
>> - KM_SKB_DATA_SOFTIRQ);
>> + vaddr = kmap_atomic(buffer_info->page);
>> memcpy(skb_tail_pointer(skb), vaddr,
>> length);
>> - kunmap_atomic(vaddr,
>> - KM_SKB_DATA_SOFTIRQ);
>> + kunmap_atomic(vaddr);
>> /* re-use the page, so don't erase
>> * buffer_info->page */
>> skb_put(skb, length);
> But why are these drivers using kmap_atomic() in first place, since
> their fragments are allocated in regular zone (GFP_ATOMIC or
> GFP_KERNEL) ?

I was asking the same thing myself recently when I started working on
some copy-break like code for the ixgbe driver. I believe the main
reason is a lack of documentation. This code is based loosely on the
skb_copy_bits code which will use kmap_skb_frag over all of the paged
portions of the sk_buff. As such it was decided to map things via
kmap_atomic in order to guarantee the pages had a valid virtual address.

If I understand things correctly, what you are brining up is that pages
allocated with either GFP_ATOMIC or GFP_KERNEL will always be allocated
from the lowmem pool and as such page_address should always succeed. Is
that correct?

Thanks,

Alex
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