[PATCH v2 0/7] highmem: Extend kmap_local_page() documentation

From: Fabio M. De Francesco
Date: Thu Jul 28 2022 - 11:48:54 EST


The Highmem's interface is evolving and the current documentation does not
reflect the intended uses of each of the calls. Furthermore, after a
recent series of reworks, the differences of the calls can still be
confusing and may lead to the expanded use of calls which are deprecated.

This series is the second round of changes towards an enhanced
documentation of the Highmem's interface; at this stage the patches are
only focused to kmap_local_page().

In addition it also contains some minor clean ups.

Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Suggested-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Fabio M. De Francesco <fmdefrancesco@xxxxxxxxx>

v1->v2: According to a comment from Jonathan Corbet and some
modifications suggested by Ira Weiny, change a couple of phrases in 3/7.
1,2,4-7/7 have no changes since v1.

Fabio M. De Francesco (7):
highmem: Remove unneeded spaces in kmap_local_page() kdocs
highmem: Specify that kmap_local_page() is callable from interrupts
Documentation/mm: Don't kmap*() pages which can't come from HIGHMEM
Documentation/mm: Avoid invalid use of addresses from
kmap_local_page()
Documentation/mm: Prefer kmap_local_page() and avoid kmap()
highmem: Delete a sentence from kmap_local_page() kdocs
Documentation/mm: Add details about kmap_local_page() and preemption

Documentation/vm/highmem.rst | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
include/linux/highmem.h | 7 +++----
2 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

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