netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 5/5] sunvnet: Use kmap_local_page() instead of kmap

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Date:   Fri, 18 Nov 2022 10:11:12 +0100
From:   "Fabio M. De Francesco" <fmdefrancesco@...il.com>
To:     netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Anirudh Venkataramanan <anirudh.venkataramanan@...el.com>
Cc:     Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@...el.com>,
        Anirudh Venkataramanan <anirudh.venkataramanan@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 5/5] sunvnet: Use kmap_local_page() instead of kmap_atomic()

On giovedì 17 novembre 2022 23:25:57 CET Anirudh Venkataramanan wrote:
> kmap_atomic() is being deprecated in favor of kmap_local_page().
> Replace kmap_atomic() and kunmap_atomic() with kmap_local_page()
> and kunmap_local() respectively.
> 
> Note that kmap_atomic() disables preemption and page-fault processing,
> but kmap_local_page() doesn't. Converting the former to the latter is safe
> only if there isn't an implicit dependency on preemption and page-fault
> handling being disabled, which does appear to be the case here.
> 
> Also note that the page being mapped is not allocated by the driver, and so
> the driver doesn't know if the page is in normal memory. This is the reason
> kmap_local_page() is used as opposed to page_address().
> 
> I don't have hardware, so this change has only been compile tested.
> 
> Cc: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@...el.com>
> Cc: Fabio M. De Francesco <fmdefrancesco@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Anirudh Venkataramanan <anirudh.venkataramanan@...el.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/sun/sunvnet_common.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/sun/sunvnet_common.c
> b/drivers/net/ethernet/sun/sunvnet_common.c index 80fde5f..a6211b9 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/sun/sunvnet_common.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/sun/sunvnet_common.c
> @@ -1085,13 +1085,13 @@ static inline int vnet_skb_map(struct ldc_channel 
*lp,
> struct sk_buff *skb, u8 *vaddr;
> 
>  		if (nc < ncookies) {
> -			vaddr = kmap_atomic(skb_frag_page(f));
> +			vaddr = kmap_local_page(skb_frag_page(f));
>  			blen = skb_frag_size(f);
>  			blen += 8 - (blen & 7);
>  			err = ldc_map_single(lp, vaddr + 
skb_frag_off(f),
>  					     blen, cookies + nc, 
ncookies - nc,
>  					     map_perm);
> -			kunmap_atomic(vaddr);
> +			kunmap_local(vaddr);
>  		} else {
>  			err = -EMSGSIZE;
>  		}
> --
> 2.37.2

Reviewed-by: Fabio M. De Francesco <fmdefrancesco@...il.com>

Thanks,

Fabio