[PATCH 1/7] ubi: block: Refactor sg list processing for highmem

Christoph Hellwig hch at infradead.org
Thu Aug 10 09:06:10 PDT 2023


On Thu, Aug 10, 2023 at 06:00:12PM +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> Currently sg_virt() is used while filling the sg list from LEB data.
> This approach cannot work with highmem.
> 
> Refactor ubi_eba_read_leb_sg() to use kmap_atomic() for sg list
> access.
> Since kmap_atomic() disables preempt a bounce buffer is needed.
> kmap_local_page() is not used to allow easy backporting of this patch
> to older kernels.
> 
> The followup patches in this series will switch to kmap_sg()
> and we can remove our own helper and the bounce buffer.

Please just use kmap_local and avoid the bounce buffering.




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