Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 8 Dec 2020 12:23:16 +0000 | From | Matthew Wilcox <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH V2 2/2] mm/highmem: Lift memcpy_[to|from]_page to core |
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On Mon, Dec 07, 2020 at 02:57:03PM -0800, ira.weiny@intel.com wrote: > Placing these functions in 'highmem.h' is suboptimal especially with the > changes being proposed in the functionality of kmap. From a caller > perspective including/using 'highmem.h' implies that the functions > defined in that header are only required when highmem is in use which is > increasingly not the case with modern processors. Some headers like > mm.h or string.h seem ok but don't really portray the functionality > well. 'pagemap.h', on the other hand, makes sense and is already > included in many of the places we want to convert.
pagemap.h is for the page cache. It's not for "random page functionality". Yes, I know it's badly named. No, I don't want to rename it. These helpers should go in highmem.h along with zero_user().
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