Thread (128 messages) 128 messages, 3 authors, 2021-06-28

Re: [PATCH v2 03/46] mm: Add kmap_local_folio()

From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Date: 2021-06-23 08:00:03
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On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 01:15:08PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) wrote:
This allows us to map a portion of a folio.  Callers can only expect
to access up to the next page boundary.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
This looks sensible to me:

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

While we're at it:  flushing incoherent mappings for use with kmap
has been a complete mess.  I've been trying to fix this with
kunmap_local_dirty, but that could use another review, as well as a
folio version probably give that one prime use case of folios is to have
them mapped into userspace.
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