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From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	fmdefrancesco@gmail.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	ebiederm@xmission.com, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>, ira.weiny@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] fs: Replace kmap{,_atomic}() with kmap_local_page()
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2022 12:13:08 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <166067718637.5584.14452180962626793627.b4-ty@chromium.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220803182856.28246-1-fmdefrancesco@gmail.com>

On Wed, 3 Aug 2022 20:28:56 +0200, Fabio M. De Francesco wrote:
> The use of kmap() and kmap_atomic() are being deprecated in favor of
> kmap_local_page().
> 
> There are two main problems with kmap(): (1) It comes with an overhead as
> mapping space is restricted and protected by a global lock for
> synchronization and (2) it also requires global TLB invalidation when the
> kmap’s pool wraps and it might block when the mapping space is fully
> utilized until a slot becomes available.
> 
> [...]

Applied to for-next/execve, thanks!

[1/1] fs: Replace kmap{,_atomic}() with kmap_local_page()
      https://git.kernel.org/kees/c/3a608cfee97e

-- 
Kees Cook



      parent reply	other threads:[~2022-08-16 19:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-08-03 18:28 Fabio M. De Francesco
2022-08-13 13:36 ` Fabio M. De Francesco
2022-08-16 19:08   ` Kees Cook
2022-08-16 19:13 ` Kees Cook [this message]

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