Documentation/mm: add details about kmap_local_page() and preemption
What happens if a thread is preempted after mapping pages with
kmap_local_page() was questioned recently.[1]
Commit f3ba3c710a
("mm/highmem: Provide kmap_local*") from Thomas
Gleixner explains clearly that on context switch, the maps of an outgoing
task are removed and the map of the incoming task are restored and that
kmap_local_page() can be invoked from both preemptible and atomic
contexts.[2]
Therefore, for the purpose to make it clearer that users can call
kmap_local_page() from contexts that allow preemption, rework a couple of
sentences and add further information in highmem.rst.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/5303077.Sb9uPGUboI@opensuse/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20201118204007.468533059@linutronix.de/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220728154844.10874-8-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>
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This function should be preferred, where feasible, over all the others.
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These mappings are thread-local and CPU-local, meaning that the mapping
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can only be accessed from within this thread and the thread is bound the
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CPU while the mapping is active. Even if the thread is preempted (since
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preemption is never disabled by the function) the CPU can not be
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unplugged from the system via CPU-hotplug until the mapping is disposed.
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can only be accessed from within this thread and the thread is bound to the
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CPU while the mapping is active. Although preemption is never disabled by
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this function, the CPU can not be unplugged from the system via
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CPU-hotplug until the mapping is disposed.
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It's valid to take pagefaults in a local kmap region, unless the context
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in which the local mapping is acquired does not allow it for other reasons.
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As said, pagefaults and preemption are never disabled. There is no need to
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disable preemption because, when context switches to a different task, the
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maps of the outgoing task are saved and those of the incoming one are
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restored.
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kmap_local_page() always returns a valid virtual address and it is assumed
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that kunmap_local() will never fail.
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