linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] Documentation/highmem: Add information about kmap_local

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Message-ID: <2898756.e9J7NaK4W3@suse>
Date:   Thu, 17 Aug 2023 19:22:25 +0200
From:   "Fabio M. De Francesco" <fmdefrancesco@...il.com>
To:     linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "Mike Rapoport (IBM)" <rppt@...nel.org>,
        Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@...el.com>,
        Deming Wang <wangdeming@...pur.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Peter Collingbourne <pcc@...gle.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
        Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>, Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] Documentation/highmem: Add information about
 kmap_local_folio()

On venerdì 14 luglio 2023 21:45:09 CEST Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> "Fabio M. De Francesco" <fmdefrancesco@...il.com> writes:
> > The differences between kmap_local_page() and kmap_local_folio() consist
> > only in the first taking a pointer to a page and the second taking two
> > arguments, a pointer to a folio and the byte offset within the folio which
> > identifies the page.
> > 
> > The two API's can be explained at the same time in the "Temporary Virtual
> > Mappings" section of the Highmem's documentation.
> > 
> > Add information about kmap_local_folio() in the same subsection that
> > explains kmap_local_page().
> >
>
[snip]
> 
> Applied, thanks.
> 
> jon

Jonathan,

Can you please tell me which release is this patch for? I see that it has not 
yet reached upstream.

Thanks,

Fabio