Re: [PATCH] ide-scsi highmem cleanup

[Jeff Garzik]

Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote:
> tree c6016a8741a2527acac0ceb6e6ce431a798d6708
> parent f1fc78a8c7f3a784b9fd1e07cc1438a0ea569555
> author Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> Mon, 31 Oct 2005 07:00:13 -0800
> committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxx> Mon, 31 Oct 2005 09:37:17 -0800
>
> [PATCH] ide-scsi highmem cleanup
>
> It's not necessary to test PageHighmem in here - kmap_atomic() does the right
> thing.
>
> Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxx>
>
>  drivers/scsi/ide-scsi.c |   38 ++++++++++++--------------------------
>  1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/ide-scsi.c b/drivers/scsi/ide-scsi.c
> --- a/drivers/scsi/ide-scsi.c
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/ide-scsi.c
> @@ -180,19 +180,12 @@ static void idescsi_input_buffers (ide_d
>  			return;
>  		}
>  		count = min(pc->sg->length - pc->b_count, bcount);
> -		if (PageHighMem(pc->sg->page)) {
> -			unsigned long flags;
> -
> -			local_irq_save(flags);
> -			buf = kmap_atomic(pc->sg->page, KM_IRQ0) + pc->sg->offset;
> -			drive->hwif->atapi_input_bytes(drive, buf + pc->b_count, count);
> -			kunmap_atomic(buf - pc->sg->offset, KM_IRQ0);
> -			local_irq_restore(flags);
> -		} else {
> -			buf = page_address(pc->sg->page) + pc->sg->offset;
> -			drive->hwif->atapi_input_bytes(drive, buf + pc->b_count, count);
> -		}
> -		bcount -= count; pc->b_count += count;
> +		buf = kmap_atomic(pc->sg->page, KM_IRQ0);
> +		drive->hwif->atapi_input_bytes(drive,
> +				buf + pc->b_count + pc->sg->offset, count);
> +		kunmap_atomic(buf, KM_IRQ0);
> +		bcount -= count;
> +		pc->b_count += count;
>  		if (pc->b_count == pc->sg->length) {
>  			pc->sg++;
>  			pc->b_count = 0;
> @@ -212,19 +205,12 @@ static void idescsi_output_buffers (ide_
>  			return;
>  		}
>  		count = min(pc->sg->length - pc->b_count, bcount);
> -		if (PageHighMem(pc->sg->page)) {
> -			unsigned long flags;
> -
> -			local_irq_save(flags);
> -			buf = kmap_atomic(pc->sg->page, KM_IRQ0) + pc->sg->offset;
> -			drive->hwif->atapi_output_bytes(drive, buf + pc->b_count, count);
> -			kunmap_atomic(buf - pc->sg->offset, KM_IRQ0);
> -			local_irq_restore(flags);
> -		} else {
> -			buf = page_address(pc->sg->page) + pc->sg->offset;
> -			drive->hwif->atapi_output_bytes(drive, buf + pc->b_count, count);
> -		}
> -		bcount -= count; pc->b_count += count;
> +		buf = kmap_atomic(pc->sg->page, KM_IRQ0);
> +		drive->hwif->atapi_output_bytes(drive,
> +				buf + pc->b_count + pc->sg->offset, count);
> +		kunmap_atomic(buf, KM_IRQ0);
> +		bcount -= count;
> +		pc->b_count += count;

Unless I'm missing something, this patch looks very wrong.

kmap_atomic(..., KM_IRQx) needs to be inside local_irq_save().

As such, the PageHighMem() does have clear benefits.

	Jeff


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