linux-kernel - Re: switch the block layer to use kmap_local

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Message-ID: <yq1wnqt4x1q.fsf@ca-mkp.ca.oracle.com>
Date:   Wed, 16 Jun 2021 12:03:27 -0400
From:   "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:     Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@...ha.franken.de>,
        Geoff Levand <geoff@...radead.org>,
        Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@...il.com>,
        Dongsheng Yang <dongsheng.yang@...ystack.cn>,
        Mike Snitzer <snitzer@...hat.com>,
        "James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>,
        Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@...el.com>, dm-devel@...hat.com,
        linux-mips@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-block@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        ceph-devel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: switch the block layer to use kmap_local_page v2


Christoph,

> this series switches the core block layer code and all users of the
> existing bvec kmap helpers to use kmap_local_page.  Drivers that
> currently use open coded kmap_atomic calls will converted in a follow
> on series.

Looks OK to me.

Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@...cle.com>

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering