linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 4/4] fs/sysv: Replace kmap() with kmap_local

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Message-ID: <Y8ocXbztTPbxu3bq@ZenIV>
Date:   Fri, 20 Jan 2023 04:45:17 +0000
From:   Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
To:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
Cc:     "Fabio M. De Francesco" <fmdefrancesco@...il.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 4/4] fs/sysv: Replace kmap() with kmap_local_page()

On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 04:28:12AM +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 04:21:06AM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 04:32:32PM +0100, Fabio M. De Francesco wrote:
> > 
> > > -inline void dir_put_page(struct page *page)
> > > +inline void dir_put_page(struct page *page, void *page_addr)
> > >  {
> > > -	kunmap(page);
> > > +	kunmap_local(page_addr);
> > 
> > ... and that needed to be fixed - at some point "round down to beginning of
> > page" got lost in rebasing...
> 
> You don't need to round down in kunmap().  See:
> 
> void kunmap_local_indexed(const void *vaddr)
> {
>         unsigned long addr = (unsigned long) vaddr & PAGE_MASK;
> 

Sure, but... there's also this:

static inline void __kunmap_local(const void *addr)
{
#ifdef ARCH_HAS_FLUSH_ON_KUNMAP
        kunmap_flush_on_unmap(addr);
#endif
}

Are you sure that the guts of that thing will be happy with address that is not
page-aligned?  I've looked there at some point, got scared of parisc (IIRC)
MMU details and decided not to rely upon that...