Recently, we made a driver utilizing kmap_atomic_to_page. Of course, it's not mainlined. People may be using it outside mainline just like us.
vmalloc has vmalloc_to_page, pkmap has kmap_to page, and fixmap has kmap_atomic_to_page. Then.. how about letting virt_to_page do them all? On 10/07/2015 10:37 AM, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > On Tue, 6 Oct 2015, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > >> On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 08:09:33PM +0900, Chanho Min wrote: >>> Since kmap_atomic returns the pkmap address without a new mapping to >>> fixmap for the page that is already mapped by kmap, It should be >>> considered for the pkmap address in kmap_atomic_to_page. >> What's the reasoning behind this change, given that I can find lots of >> definitions of kmap_atomic_to_page() in the kernel, but not a single >> user of this. >> >> If there's no users, should we be deleting this code? > I think commit 5bbeed12bdc3 provides the answer to that question. > > > Nicolas > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
