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kmap() is being deprecated in favor of kmap_local_page().[1] There are two main problems with kmap(): (1) It comes with an overhead as mapping space is restricted and protected by a global lock for synchronization and (2) it also requires global TLB invalidation when the kmap’s pool wraps and it might block when the mapping space is fully utilized until a slot becomes available. The pages which will be mapped are allocated in nvmet_tcp_map_data(), using the GFP_KERNEL flag. This assures that they cannot come from HIGHMEM. This imply that a straight page_address() can replace the kmap() of sg_page(sg) in nvmet_tcp_map_pdu_iovec(). As a side effect, we might also delete the field "nr_mapped" from struct "nvmet_tcp_cmd" because, after removing the kmap() calls, there would be no longer any need of it. In addition, there is no reason to use a kvec for the command receive data buffers iovec, use a bio_vec instead and let iov_iter handle the buffer mapping and data copy. Test with blktests on a QEMU/KVM x86_32 VM, 6GB RAM, booting a kernel with HIGHMEM64GB enabled. [1] "[PATCH] checkpatch: Add kmap and kmap_atomic to the deprecated list" https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220813220034.806698-1-ira.weiny@intel.com/ Cc: Chaitanya Kulkarni <chaitanyak@nvidia.com> Cc: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org> Suggested-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Fabio M. De Francesco <fmdefrancesco@gmail.com> Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Suggested-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> [sagi: added bio_vec plus minor naming changes] Signed-off-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.