linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 17/28] mm: remove the prot argument from vm_map

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Date:   Wed, 8 Apr 2020 14:23:56 +0200
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@...rosoft.com>,
        Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>,
        Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@...rosoft.com>,
        Wei Liu <wei.liu@...nel.org>, x86@...nel.org,
        David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>,
        Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com>,
        Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@...aro.org>,
        Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@...ux.intel.com>,
        Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
        Nitin Gupta <ngupta@...are.org>,
        Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>,
        Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@....fr>,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-hyperv@...r.kernel.org,
        dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, linaro-mm-sig@...ts.linaro.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 17/28] mm: remove the prot argument from vm_map_ram

On Wed, Apr 08, 2020 at 02:21:04PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 08, 2020 at 01:59:15PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > This is always GFP_KERNEL - for long term mappings with other properties
> > vmap should be used.
> 
>  PAGE_KERNEL != GFP_KERNEL :-)

Yep.  The compiler complained about that a few times :)