linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/5] arch/kmap: Remove redundant arch specific kmaps

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Message-ID: <20200426222333.GA135929@iweiny-DESK2.sc.intel.com>
Date:   Sun, 26 Apr 2020 15:23:34 -0700
From:   Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@...el.com>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@...ha.franken.de>,
        "James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@...senpartnership.com>,
        Helge Deller <deller@....de>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        x86@...nel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Chris Zankel <chris@...kel.net>,
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        linux-snps-arc@...ts.infradead.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] arch/kmap: Remove redundant arch specific kmaps

On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 12:17:15AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 25, 2020 at 10:54:03PM -0700, ira.weiny@...el.com wrote:
> > From: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@...el.com>
> > 
> > The kmap code for all the architectures is almost 100% identical.
> > 
> > Lift the common code to the core.  Use ARCH_HAS_KMAP to indicate if an
> > arch needs a special kmap.
> 
> Can you add a kmap_flush_tlb hook that csky and mips define, and the
> just entirely consolidate the code instead?

Sure that seems to work.

Ira