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author | Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) | 2020-12-30 10:21:39 -0500 |
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committer | Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) | 2021-10-18 07:49:38 -0400 |
commit | 53c36de0701f2fdda6b1d209dc89e2bad4a9c7b8 (patch) | |
tree | bb2ad9e09ae5c30285e16ea6914fd30b52464c25 /include/linux/highmem.h | |
parent | 08b0b0059bf1c2e8637f724cc7cc4d29b1e808de (diff) |
mm: Add kmap_local_folio()
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>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/highmem.h')
-rw-r--r-- | include/linux/highmem.h | 37 |
1 files changed, 37 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/highmem.h b/include/linux/highmem.h index b4c49f9cc379..27cdd715c5f9 100644 --- a/include/linux/highmem.h +++ b/include/linux/highmem.h @@ -97,6 +97,43 @@ static inline void kmap_flush_unused(void); static inline void *kmap_local_page(struct page *page); /** + * kmap_local_folio - Map a page in this folio for temporary usage + * @folio: The folio containing the page. + * @offset: The byte offset within the folio which identifies the page. + * + * Requires careful handling when nesting multiple mappings because the map + * management is stack based. The unmap has to be in the reverse order of + * the map operation:: + * + * addr1 = kmap_local_folio(folio1, offset1); + * addr2 = kmap_local_folio(folio2, offset2); + * ... + * kunmap_local(addr2); + * kunmap_local(addr1); + * + * Unmapping addr1 before addr2 is invalid and causes malfunction. + * + * Contrary to kmap() mappings the mapping is only valid in the context of + * the caller and cannot be handed to other contexts. + * + * On CONFIG_HIGHMEM=n kernels and for low memory pages this returns the + * virtual address of the direct mapping. Only real highmem pages are + * temporarily mapped. + * + * While it is significantly faster than kmap() for the higmem case it + * comes with restrictions about the pointer validity. Only use when really + * necessary. + * + * On HIGHMEM enabled systems mapping a highmem page has the side effect of + * disabling migration in order to keep the virtual address stable across + * preemption. No caller of kmap_local_folio() can rely on this side effect. + * + * Context: Can be invoked from any context. + * Return: The virtual address of @offset. + */ +static inline void *kmap_local_folio(struct folio *folio, size_t offset); + +/** * kmap_atomic - Atomically map a page for temporary usage - Deprecated! * @page: Pointer to the page to be mapped * |