linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/3] COVER: Remove memcpy_page

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Date:   Mon, 27 Mar 2023 17:29:52 +0100
From:   Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
To:     Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@...roup.eu>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>, x86@...nel.org,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@...el.com>
Cc:     kernel-team@...roid.com, Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] COVER: Remove memcpy_page_flushcache()

On Wed, 15 Mar 2023 16:20:53 -0700, Ira Weiny wrote:
> Commit 21b56c847753 ("iov_iter: get rid of separate bvec and xarray
> callbacks") removed the calls to memcpy_page_flushcache().
> 
> kmap_atomic() is deprecated and used in the x86 version of
> memcpy_page_flushcache().
> 
> Remove the unnecessary memcpy_page_flushcache() call from all arch's.
> 
> [...]

Applied arm64 patch to arm64 (for-next/mm), thanks!

[3/3] arm: uaccess: Remove memcpy_page_flushcache()
      https://git.kernel.org/arm64/c/7cae569e6209

Cheers,
-- 
Will

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