Re: [PATCH v3 4/4] fs/sysv: Replace kmap() with kmap_local_page()

From: Al Viro
Date: Fri Jan 20 2023 - 00:00:44 EST


On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 04:28:12AM +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 04:21:06AM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 04:32:32PM +0100, Fabio M. De Francesco wrote:
> >
> > > -inline void dir_put_page(struct page *page)
> > > +inline void dir_put_page(struct page *page, void *page_addr)
> > > {
> > > - kunmap(page);
> > > + kunmap_local(page_addr);
> >
> > ... and that needed to be fixed - at some point "round down to beginning of
> > page" got lost in rebasing...
>
> You don't need to round down in kunmap(). See:
>
> void kunmap_local_indexed(const void *vaddr)
> {
> unsigned long addr = (unsigned long) vaddr & PAGE_MASK;
>

Sure, but... there's also this:

static inline void __kunmap_local(const void *addr)
{
#ifdef ARCH_HAS_FLUSH_ON_KUNMAP
kunmap_flush_on_unmap(addr);
#endif
}

Are you sure that the guts of that thing will be happy with address that is not
page-aligned? I've looked there at some point, got scared of parisc (IIRC)
MMU details and decided not to rely upon that...