On Fri, Feb 05, 2021 at 09:00:30AM -0800, ira.we...@intel.com wrote: > From: Ira Weiny <ira.we...@intel.com> > > kmap is inefficient and we are trying to reduce the usage in the kernel. > There is no readily apparent reason why initp_page needs to be allocated > and kmap'ed() but sigstruct needs to be page aligned and token > 512 byte aligned. > > kmalloc() can give us this alignment but we need to allocate PAGE_SIZE > bytes to do so. Rather than change this kmap() to kmap_local_page() use > kmalloc() instead. > > Remove the alloc_page()/kmap() and replace with kmalloc(PAGE_SIZE, ...) > to get a page aligned kernel address to use. > > In addition add a comment to document the alignment requirements so that > others like myself don't attempt to 'fix' this again. > > Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.han...@intel.com> > Cc: Sean Christopherson <sea...@google.com> > Cc: Jethro Beekman <jet...@fortanix.com> > Signed-off-by: Ira Weiny <ira.we...@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jar...@kernel.org> /Jarkko
