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Fabio M. De Francesco a9e9c93966 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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arch mm/hugetlb: make pud_huge() and follow_huge_pud() aware of non-present pud entry 2022-08-08 18:06:43 -07:00
block for-5.20/block-2022-08-04 2022-08-04 20:00:14 -07:00
certs certs: make system keyring depend on x509 parser 2022-07-24 12:53:55 -07:00
crypto tpmdd updates for Linux v5.20 2022-08-06 09:43:02 -07:00
Documentation Documentation/mm: add details about kmap_local_page() and preemption 2022-08-08 18:06:46 -07:00
drivers LED updates for 5.20: new driver for bcm63138, is31fl319x updates, 2022-08-08 11:36:21 -07:00
fs mm: hugetlb_vmemmap: introduce the name HVO 2022-08-08 18:06:42 -07:00
include highmem: delete a sentence from kmap_local_page() kdocs 2022-08-08 18:06:46 -07:00
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README

README 

Linux kernel
============

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.