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

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Message-Id: <168074339910.3678997.3908311433579261627.b4-ty@ellerman.id.au>
Date:   Thu, 06 Apr 2023 11:09:59 +1000
From:   Michael Ellerman <patch-notifications@...erman.id.au>
To:     Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>,
        Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@...roup.eu>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, x86@...nel.org,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@...el.com>
Cc:     Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: (subset) [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.
> 
> [...]

Patch 2 applied to powerpc/next.

[2/3] powerpc: Remove memcpy_page_flushcache()
      https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/0398abca61482ae47a41ae8f2401338aea366327

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