linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V1 00/10] Remove duplicated kmap code

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Date:   Fri, 01 May 2020 12:29:00 +1000
From:   Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
To:     ira.weiny@...el.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Christian Koenig <christian.koenig@....com>,
        Huang Rui <ray.huang@....com>
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        Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@...ha.franken.de>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH V1 00/10] Remove duplicated kmap code

ira.weiny@...el.com writes:
> From: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@...el.com>
>
> The kmap infrastructure has been copied almost verbatim to every architecture.
> This series consolidates obvious duplicated code by defining core functions
> which call into the architectures only when needed.
>
> Some of the k[un]map_atomic() implementations have some similarities but the
> similarities were not sufficient to warrant further changes.
>
> In addition we remove a duplicate implementation of kmap() in DRM.
>
> Testing was done by 0day to cover all the architectures I can't readily
> build/test.

I threw some powerpc builds at it and they all passed, so LGTM.

cheers