Documentation/mm: don't kmap*() pages which can't come from HIGHMEM
authorFabio M. De Francesco <fmdefrancesco@gmail.com>
Thu, 28 Jul 2022 15:48:40 +0000 (17:48 +0200)
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 9 Aug 2022 01:06:45 +0000 (18:06 -0700)
commit516ea046ec5558882b4a8e5f6b0c9b4c957db279
treea7ce490c6e2eb1771a982cfe75511fbcdf78b3af
parent383bbef283920411379c5c93829102ff7859fea5
Documentation/mm: don't kmap*() pages which can't come from HIGHMEM

There is no need to kmap*() pages which are guaranteed to come from
ZONE_NORMAL (or lower).  Linux has currently several call sites of
kmap{,_atomic,_local_page}() on pages which are clearly known which can't
come from ZONE_HIGHMEM.

Therefore, add a paragraph to highmem.rst, to explain better that a plain
page_address() may be used for getting the address of pages which cannot
come from ZONE_HIGHMEM, although it is always safe to use
kmap_local_page() / kunmap_local() also on those pages.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220728154844.10874-4-fmdefrancesco@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Fabio M. De Francesco <fmdefrancesco@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Peter Collingbourne <pcc@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Documentation/mm/highmem.rst