linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH] nvmet-tcp: Don't kmap() pages which can't come from HIGHMEM

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Message-ID: <7c5c3e39-650e-c0ae-c9ce-8b23c8c15493@grimberg.me>
Date:   Wed, 17 Aug 2022 17:25:34 +0300
From:   Sagi Grimberg <sagi@...mberg.me>
To:     Keith Busch <kbusch@...nel.org>
Cc:     "Fabio M. De Francesco" <fmdefrancesco@...il.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@...dia.com>,
        linux-nvme@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] nvmet-tcp: Don't kmap() pages which can't come from
 HIGHMEM


>>> You should also remove the cmd's 'nr_mapped' field while you're at it,
>>> otherwise you'll hit the WARN in nvmet_tcp_free_cmd_buffers().
>>
>> Not remove nr_mapped because we use it to know the iovec entries, but
>> we can just remove the WARN statement.
> 
> It's only used locally within nvmet_tcp_map_pdu_iovec() after this change, so
> no need to carry it in struct nvmet_tcp_cmd anymore.

You are right, we can kill it.