linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH] kmap_atomic

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Message-Id: <1255041150.17055.24.camel@laptop>
Date:	Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:32:30 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	jim owens <jowens@...com>
Cc:	Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@...cali.co.uk>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-arch <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] kmap_atomic_push

On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 18:27 -0400, jim owens wrote:
> So if I understand this correctly, the sequence:
> 
> in = kmap_atomic(inpage, KM_USER1);
> 
> out = kmap_atomic(outpage, KM_USER0);
> 
> kunmap_atomic(in, KM_USER1);
> 
> in = kmap_atomic(next_inpage, KM_USER1);
> 
> is now illegal with this patch

Yep.


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