linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 6/7] highmem: Delete a sentence from kmap_local

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Message-Id: <20220728154844.10874-7-fmdefrancesco@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 28 Jul 2022 17:48:43 +0200
From:   "Fabio M. De Francesco" <fmdefrancesco@...il.com>
To:     Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@...el.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@...radead.org>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        Peter Collingbourne <pcc@...gle.com>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     "Fabio M. De Francesco" <fmdefrancesco@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 6/7] highmem: Delete a sentence from kmap_local_page() kdocs

kmap_local_page() should always be preferred in place of kmap() and
kmap_atomic(). "Only use when really necessary." is not consistent with
the Documentation/mm/highmem.rst and these kdocs it embeds.

Therefore, delete the above-mentioned sentence from kdocs.

Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@...radead.org>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Suggested-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@...el.com>
Reviewed-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@...el.com>
Signed-off-by: Fabio M. De Francesco <fmdefrancesco@...il.com>
---
 include/linux/highmem.h | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/highmem.h b/include/linux/highmem.h
index 0ba031ad29c2..63f25dfc6317 100644
--- a/include/linux/highmem.h
+++ b/include/linux/highmem.h
@@ -86,8 +86,7 @@ static inline void kmap_flush_unused(void);
  * temporarily mapped.
  *
  * While it is significantly faster than kmap() for the higmem case it
- * comes with restrictions about the pointer validity. Only use when really
- * necessary.
+ * comes with restrictions about the pointer validity.
  *
  * On HIGHMEM enabled systems mapping a highmem page has the side effect of
  * disabling migration in order to keep the virtual address stable across
-- 
2.37.1